Emily V. Gordon Quotes
Don't expect yourself to immediately love your stepchildren. In fact, you may hate them for a bit.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
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For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.
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Nothing surprises me about Berry Gordy.
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.
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I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think part of the reason for my success is that I've put my ego aside and said I'm not going to put all of my effort into trying to promote myself. I'm going to try to promote my work and am going to try to promote my project.
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Don't expect yourself to immediately love your stepchildren. In fact, you may hate them for a bit.
