Meghan Daum Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.
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I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience, and yet they changed the world.
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You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.
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The 'Grace of Kings' isn't a narrative about a return to some golden age, to a lost status quo ante. It portrays a dynamic world in transition, where the redistribution of power is messy, morally ambivalent, and only lurches toward more justice.
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Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.
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I love the essay. It's my favorite genre to work in.
