Roxane Gay Quotes

I have a job I'm pretty good at. I am in charge of things. I am on committees. People respect me and take my counsel. I want to be strong and professional, but I resent how hard I have to work to be taken seriously, to receive a fraction of the consideration I might otherwise receive.

Roxane Gay

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I'm an Isabel Marant woman: I love her style so much.

Melanie Thierry

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When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.

Robert Scheer

SayingHimHonestThingsStarted

If you watch a group of schoolchildren eating lunch together, you cannot help but notice how it is a comically Lilliputian version of the adult thing - the cocked eyebrows of conversation, the reaching for condiments, the shovelling of food into tiny mouths.

John Niven

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I'm a firm believer in the connection between the body and the mind: feed one, feed both. I like to run, but only short distances, and fast. I'm no good at long distance. More than six miles, and the knees start to go.

Matt Haig

GoodMindStartShortLongBody

I think kids should go to high school until they're 30. No, really, because people are staying younger now and there's nothing to do. If you stayed longer, then it would be really great.

Andy Warhol

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When, over fifty years ago, I first became interested in economics - as a discipline that provided the key to social structure and social problems - it never crossed my mind that one day I might be the honored recipient of a Nobel Memorial Prize.

Simon Kuznets

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A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

Rod Blagojevich

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I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.

Robert Carlyle

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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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By working toward a financial objective, you'll start to see the money add up for retirement or the credit card balance go down. But it doesn't have an immediate impact on your day-to-day life, and when it does - like when you're pinching pennies to save more - the immediate impact could feel negative.

Jean Chatzky

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At the end of the year, you'll see my numbers. My numbers are always there.

Jose Reyes

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I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

Dominic Chianese

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