Jennifer Egan Quotes
I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.Jennifer Egan
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I enjoy building more than managing.
Wayne Huizenga -
It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
Sam Graves -
When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
Sam Trammell -
Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
Ralph Chaplin -
The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
Oliver North -
I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
Abraham Lincoln
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
Larry Elder -
I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
Victoria Osteen -
By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
Sam Hunt -
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
Patrick Stewart -
The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.
Uzo Aduba
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
Halldor Laxness -
I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
Karen Gillan -
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
Harold Prince -
I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
Quincy Jones -
'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
Feist -
Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places.
Darren Aronofsky -
I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.
Edward M. Purcell -
I was sixteen when suddenlyI wasn't that little girl you used to see.But your eyes still shined like pretty lights,And our daddies used to joke about the two of us.They never believed we'd really fall in love.And our mamas smiled and rolled their eyesAnd said oh my my my...
Taylor Swift -
I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.
Jay Kay Jamiroquai -
I see that if I would be happy in God, I must give Him all. And there is a wicked reluctance to do that. I want Him--but I want to have my own way, too. I want to walk humbly and softly before Him and I want to go where I shall be admired and applauded. To whom shall I yield? To God? Or to myself?
Elizabeth Prentiss -
I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.
Jennifer Egan