Jean-Marie Messier Quotes
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
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Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
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I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.
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Every woman looks good in a flamenco dress.
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I love the energy over here in the U.K., the hospitality is insane.
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.
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My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
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I think people overplay the 'Saturday Night Live' schedule. I mean, yeah, it can be some late hours. But the late hours are usually only one or two nights out of the week. You might have a crazy six-day week, but you'll work three weeks, and then you get a week off work. I'd take most jobs if it was hard work and then I got a week off.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what's happening. I'm in a room talking to people, and that's all I know. But sometimes I go out of these rooms - I live in L.A., and every now and then, maybe twice a week, I'll be somewhere, and someone will say, 'Hey, are you the guy that made Moonlight?'
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I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.
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So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.
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A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbing through it. That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention, and persuade them to try the issue out.
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I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.
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At rejse er at leve.
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Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.
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At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results.
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We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.
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Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.
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I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.
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I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence.