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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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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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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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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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 most precious resource we have is time.
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We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.
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My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.
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My hairstylist uses the Bumble & Bumble hairspray, which is the best smelling hairspray there is!
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I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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If we went back to the basics of vegetables, legumes, grains - the things closer to the Earth - it's a lot better for the Earth and for other people. We can feed more people, we can feed the starving people.
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I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. It's where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artwork's sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.
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I don't want to be an exception, because I was very outspoken about Performance Enhancing Drugs. It would be bad for my reputation if I would have an exemption for doping test - I don't want to have a free pass, I want to be like everybody else.
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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?
