Emily V. Gordon Quotes
Don't sacrifice alone time with your spouse just because the kids seem needy. A united front requires adult time alone, so put it in the calendar and make it a priority. A house cannot stand on a shaky foundation.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
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Since 1960 or thereabouts, when the Beatles and feminism came to power and destroyed the civiiisation I was rather fond of...
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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
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I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.
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My best background is, like, smash opponents. I all the time go forward. I all the time try to take down somebody. Make him give up. This is my style, you know. This is what I do all my life.
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I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.
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Don't sacrifice alone time with your spouse just because the kids seem needy. A united front requires adult time alone, so put it in the calendar and make it a priority. A house cannot stand on a shaky foundation.
