Rick Moody Quotes

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

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• Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.

  

  Kat Graham
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• A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

  

  Hans Haacke
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• Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Simple
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• The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • College
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• What attracted me to New York was there was an anonymity that I couldn't always have in Los Angeles, and it was easier to blend in there. The more successful you are, the less you are able to do that.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
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• The thing that's very puzzling to somebody who's been in Pakistan repeatedly since 1983 is lots of people live in compounds with high walls in Pakistan. I mean, that's so completely routine. In fact, you know, it would be un-routine to have the reverse.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • People
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• I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.

  

  Jenny Han
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• I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
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• I wanted to be heard, not seen. That's how it all started.

  

  Miranda Lambert

• There are career waiters in Los Angeles, and they're making over $100,000 a year.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
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• I enjoy learning about the new technologies. I enjoy getting to know the new fans and dealing with them on their turf.

  

  Lea Thompson
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• That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it's something you can't even explain. It's just doing something you have absolutely no passion for.

  

  Elena Delle Donne
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• My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family.

  

  Keri Hilson The Clutch
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• The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over 'The Wall Street Journal' or the 'Financial Times' and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.

  

  Peter Mayle
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• I'm trying to bring back 'Top of the Pops.' I don't know why us artists haven't just stood there and said, 'Let's back a campaign and bring it back,' because it would be the most amazing thing ever. 'X Factor' has got the Sunday show, and except for 'Later with Jools Holland,' which is a massive success, there isn't one music show.

  

  Olly Murs
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• There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist, except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

  

  Edith Hamilton
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• I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

  

  Rick Moody
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  • Historical