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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Our challenge is to remind ourselves that we do have common interest, common grounds, and common dreams.
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
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I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world and realised that sex can mean, ultimately, death. That has had a very serious effect on social morals and on the way people deal with each other. As we approach the millennium, people are getting more and more confused and contact is getting more and more sanitised, so there's a lot more mental games being played.
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When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began
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I love the infinite variety of New York, how it's the epicenter of so many worlds.
