Emily Yoffe Quotes
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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There are different flavours of sexiness.
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The machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.
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'Trouble,' he chuckled. 'What does a boy like you know about trouble? I was in trouble afore you were born. I been in trouble you don’t even got words for.'
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The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.
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We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.
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I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it.
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The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.
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I'm generally risk averse, and most great entrepreneurs I know are as well.
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Jazz is pretty much the freest thing you can be a part of. It's the closest thing I can get to flying. It's fun, interactive. In its own way, it's a sport.
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I would put down everything in my career to the fact that I cared - about what I do, who I work with, what I make.
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Many activists just see what's wrong: they want to stand up to injustice and educate people about it. But I think it's equally important for activists to hold a more positive vision of what's right with their country: what's going well, and what they'd like to grow or see more of. I also like to encourage activists to take some time each day to sit silently or take a walk in nature as a way to be in touch with their inner wisdom and peace - and to remember why they are on this path in the first place.
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Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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I'm not suffering from some division of personality.
