Jean Chatzky Quotes
Women take fewer financial risks than men do, but not because we're wusses. Both sexes secrete the hormone oxytocin in stressful situations, but women secrete more of it, which helps us stay calmer.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that would pull back the curtain and reveal a little man blowing smoke? One way would be to attract a core of investors who could be counted on to never withdraw more than a small percentage of principal each year.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it day after day, though, it will make you into an addict, a different man.
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Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.
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The purity of death holds no attraction for the Homeric Greeks. Their world is one in which the felt, sensed and shared reality, the reality of the human heart, is the only one worth having.
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Women take fewer financial risks than men do, but not because we're wusses. Both sexes secrete the hormone oxytocin in stressful situations, but women secrete more of it, which helps us stay calmer.
