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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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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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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I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.
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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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I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
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To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
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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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I always try to give my songs as gifts.
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I think Hillary Clinton is more suspicious, clearly tougher on Russian policy in Ukraine, Georgia, Syria; more willing to support sanctions; not against negotiating with Putin, but I would say tougher and more skeptical. And Donald Trump has talked about revisiting policy towards Ukraine, revisiting policy about sanctions towards Russia, not as quick to criticize Putin for what he might be up to in Syria and propping up the regime there - so just seems to be more open to the possibilities of working out some kind of a - I guess you'd call a modus vivendi with Putin.
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The unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground has, as its necessary condition, self-abnegation and charity. Only by means of self-abnegation and charity can we clear away the evil, folly and ignorance which constitute the thing we call our personality and prevent us from becoming aware of the spark of divinity illuminating the inner man.
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We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.
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I love the infinite variety of New York, how it's the epicenter of so many worlds.
