Jennifer Egan Quotes

My mom used to say that if someone woke her up in the middle of the night and asked how old she was, she'd answer 27. Hearing her, I'd think, 'That's ridiculous; your job as my mom is to be old.'

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• My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Black
  • Dad

• I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Taken
  • Care
  • Worry

• When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Research

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• God isn't really interested in our batting averages.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • God
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• I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Always
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  • Going

• I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Positive
  • Influence

• 'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Help
  • Best
  • Cool

• Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Earth
  • Child
  • Spring

• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
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• If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!

  

  Veronica Roth
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• The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.

  

  Federica Mogherini
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• I just don't watch a lot of TV.

  

  Patrick Wilson
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• Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
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• I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
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• I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.

  

  V. E. Schwab
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• I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Myself

• It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.

  

  Andrew Mayer Cohen
  • Music
  • Important
  • Kids

• If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Man
  • Better

• We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • People
  • Power

• It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Up
  • Time
  • Government

• I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles.

  

  Jim Crace
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• My mom used to say that if someone woke her up in the middle of the night and asked how old she was, she'd answer 27. Hearing her, I'd think, 'That's ridiculous; your job as my mom is to be old.'

  

  Jennifer Egan
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