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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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.
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The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.
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I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?
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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.
