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First Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a…
- I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage…
- Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the…
- That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.†That’s…
- You went out with a girl at first because the sheer sight of her made you weak in the knees. You fell in love and…
- I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like…
- It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and…
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- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- If we bang on the first date chances are our relationship is lasting about as long as my erection. — Nikhil Saluja
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding… — Stephen Baldwin