Lauren Groff Quotes
Time is the currency - the highest valued currency we have now. And people giving you their time is so incredible. They don't have to like your book, either. That's a totally separate gift.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
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I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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If a joke makes our tribe laugh, we assume it will make other friend-tribes laugh.
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Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.
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I'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.
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Time is the currency - the highest valued currency we have now. And people giving you their time is so incredible. They don't have to like your book, either. That's a totally separate gift.
