Jennifer Egan Quotes

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.

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• Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Comedy
  • Year
  • Corporate

• I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Love
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Because
  • Canada
  • Incentive

• I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• V-necks are great because you can get a little fat and you still look kind of good - and I like to get fat sometimes, so it's nice. I like to fluctuate between the world of skinny and fat, so V-necks suit me well.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.

  

  Gallant
  • People
  • Black
  • Artist

• I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Everyone

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Want
  • Beauty
  • Theatre

• On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Know

• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Creative

• When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Men
  • Free
  • Speak

• I hate competition.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Hate
  • Competition

• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fall
  • Intellectual
  • Continue

• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • World
  • Night
  • Myself

• Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Distance
  • Improving

• As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Long
  • Government
  • Internet

• If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It's billions to tens of billions.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Done
  • Science

• The millennial generation in the US is the first that has reduced expectations from those of their parents. And I think there is something decadent and declinist about that.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Parents

• The two favorite episodes of 'Lost' that Adam and I wrote were 'Dave,' which was where Hurley has an imaginary friend, and 'Trisha Tanaka is Dead,' where Hurley finds a van and starts it.

  

  Edward Kitsis
  • Lost
  • Friend

• If you're playing a character that someone doesn't like, that's okay, but if you're voicing your own opinions, they actually don't like you!

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Character

• A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Tree
  • Same
  • Alive

• I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.

  

  Jennifer Egan
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