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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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
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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'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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I don't know if you have ever seen a tiger of the jungle drawing a deep breath preparatory to doing a swan dive and landing with both the feet on the backbone of one of the minor fauna. Probably not, nor, as a matter of fact, have I.
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The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.
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I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.
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I thought we moved the ball really well in that stretch. We just got everyone involved, and it's tough to guard when you do that with our offense.
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Don't expect yourself to immediately love your stepchildren. In fact, you may hate them for a bit.
