Emily Oster Quotes

Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.

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• I am proud of what I've done.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Done
  • Proud

• Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Money
  • Die
  • Habits

• When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Sometimes
  • Hair
  • Fool

• No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent 'safe.' We're all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Trying
  • Internet
  • Battle

• My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Strong

• We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Work
  • Great
  • Business

• I want my opponents to look at me across the net and just not want to play me because I look so fit and amazing and strong. So that's always my goal.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Strong
  • Amazing
  • Goal

• Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.

  

  Laura Dern
  • You
  • Hate
  • Easy

• Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Death
  • Man
  • Idea

• It's counterintuitive to take a long time to hire someone, but it will save you enormous amounts of time and money later. Our biggest mistakes in hiring stem from speed.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• When I started writing about art, there were no curators.

  

  Waldemar Januszczak
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Started

• I'll tell you, son, the minority got us out-numbered!

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Son

• This was the custom of the tribes, and perhaps, in the fogs of their pasts, the scheme had had its reasons. Yet like many of their ways, only the peel remained, the fruit was long gone.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Long

• The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Hope
  • Morning
  • Tears

• Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women

• A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected many of the scientists in a subtle sense, and it diminished their desire to continue to work on the bomb.

  

  Leo Szilard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Rain

• I really liked punk music and experimental music that my brother was taking me to go see in the city, when I was probably, like, 13 years old. I was seeing a lot of teenagers making 'weird' music, and I think that was probably a big part of the reason that I actually started to play myself.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Music
  • City
  • Brother

• My parents encouraged me to be creative by being creative and interesting people themselves, and by making it clear how highly they valued creativity in others.

  

  Karl Iagnemma
  • People
  • Parents
  • Interesting

• I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.

  

  Wale
  • Up
  • Time
  • Pretty

• Life without absorbing occupation is hell - joy consists in forgetting life.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Life
  • Joy

• The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.

  

  Claude Monet
  • God
  • Working
  • Reflections

• Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you've done. Actions speak louder than words.

  

  Stephen Gilchrist Glover
  • Words
  • Actions
  • Discover

• Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.

  

  Emily Oster