Meghan Daum Quotes

If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.

Meghan Daum

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I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

Jodi Picoult

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We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.

Jenny Han

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So, what is a stroke? In about 90 per cent of strokes, it's the result of blood flow to part of the brain getting cut off, depriving it of oxygen and killing off the part fed by the clogged artery.

Michael Greger

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Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her.

Michael Jackson

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Unfortunately, as you hire more people, the casual, informal 'do what it takes' culture, which worked so well at less than 40 people, becomes chaotic and less effective.

Steve Blank

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God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.

Alvar Aalto

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I'm a cinephile. I love foreign films; I love films that are really immersive.

Trevante Rhodes

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The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

Mason Cooley

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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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I was political by coming out of the womb. I was gay, and I wanted to play tennis.

Martina Navratilova

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I take music very seriously, but it's important to me that my music is - I don't know if 'intuitive' is the word, but there's a really important element of something kind of mysterious. It's not academic or esoteric.

Julia Holter

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I hear so many startups talking about how they can raise VC instead of questioning whether they need it in the first place.

Jon Oringer

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