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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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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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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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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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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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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The sacrifices of our people were very great. Out of a population of one million, 28,000 were killed, 12,600 wounded, 10,000 were made political prisoners in Italy and Germany, and 35,000 made to do forced labour, of ground; all the communications, all the ports, mines and electric power installations were destroyed, our agriculture and livestock were plundered, and our entire national economy was wrecked.
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We had been affected by the fact that the film world was a man's world in Europe as much as here, in America actually.
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Most visitors to Amsterdam will wander into the red-light district out of sheer curiosity. The narrow streets are mostly safe day and night - just don't try to take pictures of the women working in the windows.
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I'm not in a position to tell anyone anything about how to live his or her life, but I think it's worth noting that no one can lie to us as effectively as we can lie to ourselves. We know exactly what to say! And I do think that women, even extremely smart women, can be very, very vulnerable to men.
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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.
