Emily Weiss Quotes
Ultimately, we're making and selling a consumer good that needs to work and that needs to make customers happy.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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I have a storage unit, as I moved out of a bigger house into a smaller house in L.A. I put all my stuff in a storage unit, where I have the most amazing collection of bad paintings, which took me 10 years to put together.
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I moved to Los Angeles when I was 20 years old and was absolutely terrified. I grew up in a small town, so the city itself scared me. I initially did not plan on staying but fell in love with it and never went home.
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I'm a fast and impatient dresser, so I can't dress myself up for too long. I don't even need a lot of makeup, so I'm usually ready in about half an hour.
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It was so odd to have young kids singing 'Lovin' Feelin' because they knew it from 'Top Gun.'
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Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best
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Ultimately, we're making and selling a consumer good that needs to work and that needs to make customers happy.
