Jennifer Egan Quotes
I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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If I get a bad review, I don't take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.
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The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.
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Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.
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I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.
