Emily St. John Mandel Quotes
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke -
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian -
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
Gates McFadden -
Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
Valerie Bertinelli -
I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
Ian Mckellen -
You have to open up on stage.
Karen O
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
Ina May Gaskin -
I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
Wanda Sykes -
They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
Barbara Amiel -
I'm an affectionate person.
Zara Phillips -
The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It's simply vulgar curiosity, and I won't have it.
Patrick O'Brian
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso -
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Sam Levenson -
Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.
Barack Obama -
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved; never, that I know of, controverted.
Benjamin Franklin -
Statti col dolce in bocca; e non ti dogliaCh'amareggiare al fin non te la voglia.
Ludovico Ariosto -
I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I can see things before other people do. I've always been able to do it.
Diplo
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Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.
Dinaw Mengestu -
Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.
B. W. Powe -
It is important to give your kids that individualized attention while also making time for your marriage and for yourself.
Busy Philipps -
I did see one Tyler Perry movie in the theater. My friends and I went to see, I believe it was, 'Why Did I Get Married?'
Billy Eichner -
What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.
Emily St. John Mandel