Rachel Simmons Quotes

If smart phones had been around for women in the 1950s, 'The Feminine Mystique' might never have been written. The depression and ennui of housewives would have been blunted by Pinterest and Facebook.

Rachel Simmons

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I guess there were things about the Obamas I discovered that I do think are universal to marriage. I found it very interesting in my reporting that their most difficult periods in the White House almost never seemed to coincide. When one was down, the other one was holding it together. In my experience, that's true of marriage generally.

Jodi Kantor

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I have decided not to give interviews and not to hold conversations with journalists who deal with the political activity of my wife rather than my activity as university teacher and researcher.

Joachim Sauer

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Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

Jerome Corsi

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It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

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I started to see acting as a real science. That really helped me grow as an actor.

Matthew Lewis

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I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all.

Aminatta Forna

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Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

Steven Pinker

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It's my job to be ridiculous.

Stromae

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I just hope that God will give me the strength that I can prove my worth.

Mirko Cro Cop

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The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Hard work does pay, and you just have to continue to work, and you got two guys, when you're talking about Gary and myself, we have a God-given talent, but we worked at it and we're happy to be where we are today.

Jason Kidd

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There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

Nikki Sixx

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