Emily Yoffe Quotes
I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know the letter writer.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
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I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
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Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following.
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I wear high heels and dresses. I am a total girly girl.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.
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You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.
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How hard could it be? Is it really going to hurt? You get into that deep well of emotion if you are by yourself. Why am I here? What's the point of going on? If I can't do what I want to do, then what's the point?
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I persist in performing.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know the letter writer.
