Emily Oster Quotes
Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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I know nothing about technology.
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Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.
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I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.
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Commercials are 20 seconds long, so you don't get to experiment with your characters. But in films, you get to try out your acting skills.
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I believe it is incredibly important for women and people of color to become the builders and creators in technology. In order to do so, we need to know how to code or, at least, know the language of coding - what I like to call 'code speak.'
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I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.
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Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue.
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Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.
