Emily V. Gordon Quotes
When I was young and less wise, I thought that being a feminist meant being independent. It meant not sacrificing your needs for anyone else's and not relying on anyone else for even a smidgen of your happiness or well being.Emily V. Gordon
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
Wendi McLendon-Covey -
Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
Kailash Satyarthi -
I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
Zac Brown Band -
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
Imelda Marcos -
If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
Lara Spencer -
I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.
Umberto Guidoni
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
Action Bronson -
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
Langston Hughes -
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Ogden Nash -
Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
Barbara Corcoran -
I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
Francesca Annis -
Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
Ban Ki-moon
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Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.
Walter Kirn -
As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
Vijay Sethupathi -
When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.
S. E. Hinton -
In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.
Barbara Steele -
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
Warren Bennis -
I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
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I'm un-smiteable. That's something I realized very young.
Anders Holm -
He said until they played Kentucky, they had been working so hard that they didn't even think about racism. They were just too busy working to try to win.
Derek Luke -
I remember getting to college and all of a sudden realizing that feminism was a dirty word to a lot of people and it was baffling to me. I would tell people that I was a feminist and they would look at me and go, "Why?" And that just made me feel more at home in those shoes.
Quiara Alegria Hudes -
The underdog winning is the romantic position.
Malcolm Gladwell -
The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.
William Gurnall -
When I was young and less wise, I thought that being a feminist meant being independent. It meant not sacrificing your needs for anyone else's and not relying on anyone else for even a smidgen of your happiness or well being.
Emily V. Gordon