Jennifer Egan Quotes

I grew up in the 1970s, and my friends and I felt very keenly that we had missed the '60s. We were bummed out about it.

Jennifer Egan

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I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

John Maeda

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Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

Jean M. Auel

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There is a scene in Richard Attenborough's biopic where Gandhi argues with his wife because she refuses to clean their latrine. She says it is the work of untouchables; he tells her there is no such thing. Gandhi's tactics of encouraging brotherly love across caste boundaries and urging Indians to clean their own latrines had failed miserably.

Rose George

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I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

Michael Malone

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It is always important that we have transparency, that we have shareholder protection. Then again, I think it is important that there are not so many regulations that management can't make a decision without asking a lawyer whether he can do it.

Michael Otto

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Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

Mitt Romney

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Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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America has never taken me to its heart. I've always been an outsider.

Don McCullin

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You have to know when to give up control, and if you go to a good restaurant, you have to give it up - it's a trust factor.

Sherry Yard

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I know what's it's like to grow up with ADHD and how important it is for parents, caregivers and patients, to have access to accurate information.

Ty Pennington

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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

Lynda Barry

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The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.

Lysander Spooner

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