Rick Moody Quotes
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?
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McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
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If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.
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The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
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The public psychology of going into debt for gain passes through several more or less distinct phases: (a) the lure of big prospective dividends or gains in income in the remote future; (b) the hope of selling at a profit, and realizing a capital gain in the immediate future; (c) the vogue of reckless promotions, taking advantage of the habituation of the public to great expectations; (d) the development of downright fraud, imposing on a public which had grown credulous and gullible.
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You must have dreams and goals if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world.
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History is merely gossip.
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Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis were going to take ALL of Kuwait .
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The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
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Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take And come back together again with a whole new meaning In a brand new sense, completely unrelated to the one I sent ((Did You Get My Message?))
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In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter.
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Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.
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Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.
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The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.
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I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case it was the last. But then I talked to other cartoonists, and I realized ideas are cheap; you can have a million ideas. The tricky part is the follow-through: making good ones work, making the best out of the raw material!
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Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
