Rebecca Traister Quotes

In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.

Rebecca Traister

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• I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Never
  • Need
  • Motivated

• We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Information
  • Flow

• My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Promise

• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flying
  • Calm
  • Rattle

• I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Together
  • Weird
  • Knife

• In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Sales

• You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Life
  • Opportunities
  • Injury

• Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Happiness
  • inspirational

• When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Wall
  • Face

• I use loads of moisturising products and make sure I cleanse, tone and moisturise every day. It's just so important to always keep your skin moisturised.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Important
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Future
  • Wealth
  • Gift

• When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Most
  • Disaster
  • Significant

• I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Fashion
  • Always
  • Same

• Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Support
  • Need
  • Manners

• Send a bouquet of your face with the morning breeze.

  

  Hafez
  • Morning
  • Face
  • Bouquet

• Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Feelings
  • Marine
  • Marine Corps

• Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions agst. danger real or pretended from abroad.

  

  James Madison
  • Real
  • Home
  • Truth

• Our kids are growing up with more privilege than we had; that's true for most of my friends in L.A. I don't know any actor who grew up with any particular privilege, so everyone wrestles with this. And I think, a lot of times, it's about being patient with your kids.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Friends

• I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy.

  

  Chellie Pingree
  • American
  • Health
  • Proud

• I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular; I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life, could American intelligence continue to survive and succeed? That jury is still out.

  

  Michael Hayden
  • American
  • Political
  • Questions

• In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.

  

  Rebecca Traister
  • American
  • Proportion
  • Dropped