Jean-Marie Messier Quotes
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
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I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.
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It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.
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Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.
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Death is a monster; death is horrible.
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I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.
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We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.
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I like there to be some interest in every element of my life.
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Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'
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I am less horrified by Trump himself than by what he has done to the rationalizers and enablers.
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I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.
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People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.
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My job gives me the attention I'd otherwise crave.
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As a painting teacher I'm not flirting, playing around. I'm serious about it.. .If you don't want to be serious about playing at art, do something of no account. Go into banking. Buy collar buttons at five cents a dozen and sell them for five cents a piece.
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I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet.
