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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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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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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And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.
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I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country. It's not taught enough in school.
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We have a rare chance to pursue a new path, a different, better future that delivers progress for both our peoples and the wider world. That's the opportunity before the Iranian people. We need to take advantage of that.
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People take the lazy way out, and do not regard Putin and the Kremlin as the real enemy. They create a long but erroneous chain in their heads. Putin is the leader of Russia. Putin does X, therefore Russia is doing X, and Russia is our enemy. And so, we introduce sanctions, for example, against Russia.
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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.
