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.Emily Yoffe
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
P. J. O'Rourke -
People take things so seriously.
Dana Ashbrook -
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.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
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.
Orson Welles -
Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
Salma Hayek -
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.
Rachel Kushner
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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.
Adam Carolla -
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.
Narendra Modi -
My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
Usher -
I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
Carl Hiaasen -
Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
Ian K. Smith -
It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
Saint Ignatius
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The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
A. E. Waite -
I would like to be more active outside of Israel.
Ofra Strauss -
There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
Patrick Modiano -
Intertribal aggression, escalating in some cultures to limited warfare, is common enough to be regarded as a general characteristic of hunter-gatherer social behavior.
E. O. Wilson -
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.
Edward R. Murrow -
Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?
Jennifer Jason Leigh
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I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
Irrfan Khan -
I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.
Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones -
West Bengal state Government has decided that non-criminal persons should not be kept in these kind of places and asked us to take care of them. They should live in an atmosphere of love. They need to be loved.
Mother Teresa -
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.
Emily Yoffe