Emily Oster Quotes
If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my family. Hands down. If I had to give one up, it wouldn't even be a contest.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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I think violence can never be justified.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
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It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.
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Some of the people at Ripple I think are truly the smartest people I've ever worked with in my career, which makes it a lot of fun to go to work every day.
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In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days' worth of phone records for a single individual were not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The NSA today, though, collects hundreds of millions of phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans without an individualized warrant.
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The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor.
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If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my family. Hands down. If I had to give one up, it wouldn't even be a contest.
