Emily Yoffe Quotes
When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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People take things so seriously.
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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I just like being on stage and making people happy.
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The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
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I would like to be more active outside of Israel.
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I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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Intertribal aggression, escalating in some cultures to limited warfare, is common enough to be regarded as a general characteristic of hunter-gatherer social behavior.
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There is only one person in the State Department that can sign off on State Department personnel being in a facility that doesn't meet security standards, and it's the secretary of state.
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I'm an alpha male - what else can I say?
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Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things.
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Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks.
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When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.
