Ayelet Waldman Quotes

Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

Ayelet Waldman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: December 11, 1964

Topics

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I only wear two rings: a wedding ring and my World Series ring.

Joe Garagiola

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America faces a mounting transportation crisis, and the primary culprit is road congestion. Traffic makes us unhealthy, wastes enormous amounts of time, and cripples national productivity. America needs expanded roads and transportation infrastructure, but traditional gas tax funding is no longer available.

Joe Lonsdale

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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

John Burroughs

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I think Batman is a great character in that he has a lot of internalization, and his heroics come from a dark place.

Jeremy Sisto

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A lot of the people who have come to know the company in the last few years will not have seen this piece.

Matthew Bourne

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The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium.

Matt LeBlanc

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The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns.

Stuart Symington

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Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

Michael Moore

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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Louis D. Brandeis

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Jean Anouilh

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I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh.

Clare Balding

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Over the past 100 years, there have been three major periods of tax-rate cuts in the U.S.: the Harding-Coolidge cuts of the mid-1920s; the Kennedy cuts of the mid-1960s; and the Reagan cuts of the early 1980s. Each of these periods of tax cuts was remarkably successful as measured by virtually any public policy metric.

Arthur Laffer

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