Jennifer Egan Quotes
I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.Jennifer Egan
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
Yoshiro Mori -
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
E. Stanley Jones -
The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
Igor Ivanov -
Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
Dan Carter -
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
Sally Field -
The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
Walter Ulbricht
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
Rachel Brosnahan -
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
D. H. Lawrence -
I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
H. Rap Brown -
'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
Omari Hardwick -
I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
Nate Parker
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
Harold Pinter -
Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells -
I have only one real hobby - my husband.
Florence Harding -
I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
G. Willow Wilson -
One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.
Jack Welch -
There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.
Laura Dern
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I was neeeever a cool kid.
David Furnish -
The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.
Andrew Weil -
There's no doubt that I'm a better president now than when I first took office. This is not a job where there's a manual, and over time you get a better sense of what's important, what's not, how to see around corners and anticipate problems, as opposed to just managing problems once they've arrived.
Barack Obama -
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
William Faulkner -
You shouldn't turn on C-SPAN to get your sports update.
Jason Chaffetz -
I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.
Jennifer Egan