Emily Oster Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
-
It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
-
I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
-
I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
-
I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
-
Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
-
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
-
I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
-
I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
-
Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
-
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
-
We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
-
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
-
To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
-
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
-
The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
-
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
-
In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.
-
I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now.
-
If we could be heroes, if just for one day.
-
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
-
You learn to live with your crazy enthusiasms which nobody else shares, and then you find a few other nuts like yourself, and they're your friends for a lifetime. That's what friends are, the people who share your crazy outlook and protect you from the world, because nobody else is going to give a damn what you're doing, so you need a few other people like yourself.
-
Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.
