Lauren Groff Quotes

While I know some women who are stunningly sanguine when they're pregnant, I dissolve into a total mess. What normally appears sturdy turns fragile: the economy, the climate, humanity's baseline social contract.

Lauren Groff

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WomenHumanityKnowEconomyMess

In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.

John Burnham Schwartz

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If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'You don't know how to use the English language,' or 'How could you make that argument?' It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

PeopleInfluenceLanguageYouKnow

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.

Mary MacLane

AloneBornNowWantAlwaysShall

I think it's interesting to me to talk to people who don't agree with me all the time.

Joy Behar

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I'm not concerned with what people think of me.

Don Lemon

PeopleMeThinkConcerned

Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.

Dominic Monaghan

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You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie.

David Zucker

ThoughtBetterYouKnowNiceActor

Every morning, I make myself a cappuccino with a drawing in the foam. I post them to Instagram with the hashtag #christiecappuccino.

Christie Brinkley

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If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

Chuck Palahniuk

QualityYouFindUpTakeStuff

Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

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I swear to God, I went in to buy bikinis, and the lady's like, 'You're not getting out of this store 'til you get down there and show me what you do for those abs and the arms.' She wouldn't sell me my bikinis! I had to get on the floor and do the stomach thing.

Sharon Stone

GodMeLadyYouDownShe

Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

Scott Adams

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