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.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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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.
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My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.
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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.
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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.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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.
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When I started writing about art, there were no curators.
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I'll tell you, son, the minority got us out-numbered!
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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.
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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.
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Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.
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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.
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.
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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.
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My favorite thing about the success I've found is that I get to share it with my family and the ones that I love.
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Martha Stewart was the one who really did show everybody that you can do everything.
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Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.
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If speech always wins, even if it's an atomic secret that's going to be broadcast to our enemies, it's easy to make a decision. Speech always wins. But it doesn't... Liberty doesn't always trump equality or equality always trump liberty.
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Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
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'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book.
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Basically, I've always had a complex with the way I walk. I've not always been told I've got a bad walk, but someone's always commented on my walk.
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Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.
