Jennifer Egan Quotes

Like many people of my generation, I feel like I survived my adolescent mischief only by a miracle, and it seems too much to hope for that the same miracle would befall my children - therefore, I want to make sure they take fewer chances than I did.

Jennifer Egan

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I am a huge 'Downton Abbey' fan - huge!

Joan Rivers

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I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.

Spike Lee

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We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on to the next atrocity. There is always more atrocity.

Roxane Gay

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I find it so unattractive when women wear sneakers with their business suits. I wear a nice pair of loafers or low-heeled pumps, and that's that.

Mireille Guiliano

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Honestly, the way I make music, you know - it's like, I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I try my best to make time with music that doesn't have an expiration date.

Juice Wrld

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When you get sick and it's extended, you go through all these mental phases, and everyone handles them differently.

Josh Homme

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It's not like you can say, 'This is the right side and this is the wrong side,' because obviously, a happy person is never going to want to inflict pain on somebody else. So the bullies are really victims themselves and yada, yada, yada, pop psychology, but it's true.

Dove Cameron

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There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.

Chris Stewart

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Society puts so much emphasis on outer appearance, but being confident in yourself and not letting others' opinions affect you is pretty amazing.

Brendan Dooling

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I don't even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that's what it comes down to in speed skating.

Brittany Bowe

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Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients to avoid infection and preventing serious damage to the economies of families, nations and even humanity at large.

Thomas Pogge

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There's a lot of pressure on a film set that's more immediate than the pressure in the theater where you're nervous about what's going to happen next week.

Kenneth Lonergan

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