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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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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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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The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order...With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
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Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?
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Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.
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This mortal probation is a brief period-just a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future. Yet it was to be a period of tremendous importance. It is, in fact, the most vital period of our entire eternal existence. In this mortal state we come face to face with innumerable temptations and pressures. Sometimes we come in contact with advocates of wrongdoing, disobedience, and sin. Lucifer is going about tempting those who can be tempted to see if he can lead them astray.
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During the war, in hundreds of Iliums over America, managers and engineers learned to get along without their men and women, who went to fight. It was the miracle that won the war - production with almost no manpower. In the patois of the north side of the river, it was the know-how that won the war. Democracy owed its life to know-how.
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People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive.
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We are making sure our counselors are connecting with our students about college, ... Sometimes students think they don't have enough money to attend college, and we have spent time meeting with them, letting them know they can.
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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.
