Rick Moody Quotes
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.
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The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.
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If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.
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I keep my eyes open. I pay attention to how different types of people express their personal style, how they put their clothes together.
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Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.
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I never realized how boring this game was.
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I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them into his Holy keeping.
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You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.
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What genre it falls under is only of interest later.
