Jean-Marie Messier Quotes
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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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The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.
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I love listening to music with my mate. We don't do it often, but when we do we'll just sit there and lose our heads in it. Sooner or later he'll start saying something to the effect of "Hey, Thom, can you put in something else now?" but I'll just nod coldly and respond "not just yet". But after awhile, I'll finally budge. And that's when I crack a big smile and take out The Bends and put in Kid A. My friend just sighs and leaves the room, and I can't blame him. He's not ready for that leap yet.
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The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
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My love for those I love – not many – not very many, but don't I love them so?
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A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.
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I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence.
