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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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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I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there.
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Personally, I'm a little more confident when I have a script.
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In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.
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Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.
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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.
