Emily Yoffe Quotes

If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.

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• It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Ego
  • Luxury

• Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Bad
  • Honor
  • Dangerous

• Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.

  

  Karen Elson
  • You
  • Vision
  • Model

• More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Myself

• To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Luck
  • Soldier
  • Skill

• Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Good
  • Always
  • Sales

• I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Think
  • Like
  • Reason

• Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Lies
  • Possible

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Outside
  • Washington

• I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I think that when you make yourself vulnerable, the thing that you do next is better. It's not like you have to inflict pain on yourself in order to make yourself better, but I think it helps. The thing that bonds you to a new friend isn't that you went to a really fun party; it's 'cause you had a really weird, sad conversation.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Fun
  • Party
  • Friend

• My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Art
  • Powerful
  • Red

• I have a trainer, a really nice woman named Nina Greenberg, and she got me a training plan, and we go running in the canyons in Malibu. It's just beautiful up there, absolutely gorgeous. You see bobcats up there sometimes.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • She
  • Beautiful

• If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Different
  • Young
  • Islam

• I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I'd just be a vacuum.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • History
  • Culture

• Make portraits of people in familiar and typical positions, above all give their faces the same choice of expression one gives their bodies. Thus if laughter is typical for a person, make him laugh – there are, naturally, feelings that one cannot render…

  

  Edgar Degas
  • People
  • Laughter

• When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer - you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • God
  • Important
  • Jesus

• In the interest of full disclosure, let me state that I hate Hamas. They embody everything that I, as a human being, am fighting against: oppression, religious rule, and patriarchy. They empower Israel while dividing the Palestinians.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • Hate
  • Fighting
  • Religious

• I write in two very different places: my desk in Palo Alto, California, is piled high with myriad jumbled books and papers whose stratigraphy is a challenge. Summers in Bozeman, Montana, I write in a spare space, surrounded by interesting rocks and fossils instead of books, on an old oak table with nothing but my laptop.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Different
  • High
  • Interesting

• When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.

  

  William Sanderson
  • Book
  • Law
  • Persons

• If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • People
  • Art
  • Service

• If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Different
  • Book
  • Personality