Jennifer Egan Quotes
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as 'non-profit,' these organizations should instead treat themselves as 'for-purpose.' These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.
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I wasn't a social butterfly at all.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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To me, my business is my life.
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I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.
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But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
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Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.
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This is it no more fun the death of all joy has come.
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One, two, three like a bird I sing, 'cause you given me the most beautiful set of wings.I'm so glad you're here today, 'cause tomorrow I might have to go and fly away. Fly away, fly away, fly away, fly away.
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Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
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To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency.
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Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
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There is no 100 percent pre-nup.
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No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or performed can turn a normal human being into a Dexter.
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If you do not believe in co-operation, look what happens to a wagon that loses a wheel.
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Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail
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I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.
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I love the infinite variety of New York, how it's the epicenter of so many worlds.
