Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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LifeArtMeChaosSometimesMore

The friendships I made on 'L.A. Law,' with the cast and Steven Bochco and David Kelley were really wonderful.

Jimmy Smits

LawWonderfulCastFriendshipsMade

While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most obvious, commonsense reforms to save taxpayer dollars.

Jim Ryun

BeginningDirectionProblemEasyAct

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

John Bercow

ManyNewspapersUninterestedWritten

'Journey' was very much inspired by Joseph Campbell's work for 'The Hero's Journey,' but, from among his works, I like 'The Power of Myth' best.

Jenova Chen

WorkJourneyPowerHeroBestMyth

Beautiful things comfort; they bring a real clarity and ease. We have to continue to make our environments beautiful - it's sort of like a prayer. If you surround yourself with beautiful things, you have a better life - one with more oxygen.

Anjelica Huston

LifeBeautifulPrayerYourselfYou

Black people have, like, this thing, and I have it, we all have it, we have this kind of embarrassment. Where we don't like white people to find out our little insecurities and out little quirks. We don't really like that that much. It's kind of, we're like, 'Don't let them know - that ours; that's for us.'

Michael Che

PeopleBlackFindWhiteKnowKind

The freer a society becomes, the freer its arts can flourish and be exported.

Rod Lurie

SocietyFlourishArtsBecomesFreer

Let me put it very forcefully: No large economy has ever recovered from an economic downturn through austerity. It's not going to happen in the United States, and it's not going to happen in Europe.

Joseph Stiglitz

MeEconomyHappenEuropeGoing

I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being.

Dawn Steel

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Everyone has to run their own race and make their own decisions.

Brian Schatz

DecisionsRunRaceEveryoneOwn

If consumers were more empowered, they would take more responsibility for their health.

Anne Wojcicki

HealthResponsibilityMoreTakeWere

I will never actually be able to know what it's like to go through life in someone else's body.

Allison Williams

LifeSomeoneBodyGoKnowNever

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