Emily Matchar Quotes
If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be there to demand equal pay, mandatory maternity leave, more human hours. Leaving the “dirty work” of working to the men is a way of muffling our own voices.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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The offseason is when you try to gain strength. You have 162 games during the year, so you've got to pick and choose the times work out.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
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Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
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Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.
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If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be there to demand equal pay, mandatory maternity leave, more human hours. Leaving the “dirty work” of working to the men is a way of muffling our own voices.
