Joanna Coles Quotes
The biggest stress for me at New York Magazine was when I was a middle-of-the-pack editor, and I had no control over my own schedule.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.
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I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.
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For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.
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Let stars choose what causes they want to endorse without making it an issue of loyalty to the state or country.
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I was really shy as a kid.
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I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.
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The biggest stress for me at New York Magazine was when I was a middle-of-the-pack editor, and I had no control over my own schedule.
