Emily Robison (Emily Burns Strayer) Quotes
I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. I'm just not a cold weather person.
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
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I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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I really wanted to be a writer.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
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Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
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I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
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Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best.
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The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
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I like people-watching and fading into crowds.
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I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. I'm just not a cold weather person.
