Emily St. John Mandel Quotes
The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?

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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
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My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.
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It's time to close Gitmo.
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I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.
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I have always wanted to play Sweeney in 'Sweeney Todd.'
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The fact that we haven't faced another major terrorist attack on American soil since Sept. 11 is a very significant achievement, and one that's easy to forget - it's the dog that doesn't bark.
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The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.
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It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the Constitution is not guilty of official misconduct.
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'The Rocky Horror Show' was actually my first musical love.
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TLC is T-Boz, Lisa, and Chilli. That's it.
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Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.
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I'm not so out of touch that I don't see how young people interact today.It was horrific. And that's an example of something that it's not as if that's the first time that a hate crime has taken place in this country. Hate crimes have been taking place for hundreds of years in this country, but it's there on video.
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The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?