Emily Oster Quotes
I think women - relative to men - tend to feel that they have to do the household chores on top of everything else. This becomes even worse once you have kids. It's enough to have a full time job; a full time job plus a family is even more.
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My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.
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For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.
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I have taken the marshmallows off the sweet potatoes, however. They would make a big pan of sweet potatoes and cover it with marshmallows. My kids would love it if I would do that for them!
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Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.
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My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
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I've been offered 'Celebrity Fit Club', where you have to take off your shirt and get on a scale. I got kids, man. I'm not going to humiliate myself. I'd rather drive a cab.
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When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!
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That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.
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But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.
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Diamonds aren't a girl's best friend. Freedom is.
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I think women - relative to men - tend to feel that they have to do the household chores on top of everything else. This becomes even worse once you have kids. It's enough to have a full time job; a full time job plus a family is even more.
