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 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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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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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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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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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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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.
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In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he's tired. Everyone is. That's not the point. The point is to run.
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We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.
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It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts.
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My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.
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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.
