Mary Gaitskill Quotes

Monogamy is desirable for many reasons, especially in creating a stable, emotionally connected home for children. But judging from centuries of human behavior, it is also a very difficult standard to meet.

Mary Gaitskill

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When it comes to the chocolate, I allow it every single day, but I only get 200 calories worth. So I work it into my daily calories. It's a candy bar. But I usually only need it after dinner.

Jillian Michaels

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In 'Falling Skies,' I was playing a soldier and a fighter, and then, when I was taken captive, you're still in this post-apocalyptic world.

Jessy Schram

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The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction of a second to the next can tell a story, and if photographers are looking to tell a certain story, they can curate those slices of time to their advantage.

Jill Greenberg

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The game of football has been like my best friend.

Robert Mathis

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Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine.

Ann Leckie

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Food for me has to pop, and at Spice Market, the food really pops.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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Your first job, as an owner and an entrepreneur, has to be to understand how the business is going to actually work.

Michael Gerber

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The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.

Trevor Noah

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Well, you can say there is a self driving car. I'm seeing the automation of vehicles. Really, computer-assisted driving. I think that is really interesting to us because we are taking all of the sensors technologies and putting them in cars and making people safer.

Tony Fadell

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I cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions.

Mike Wallace

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In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

Julia Child

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What is a hero without love for mankind.

Doris Lessing

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