Rick Moody Quotes

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

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• Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Law
  • Community
  • Policy

• I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Education
  • Place
  • Equal

• Making music is fantastic.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Music
  • Making
  • Fantastic

• Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Mind
  • Society

• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Will
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Humanity

• The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Purpose
  • Plan
  • Activity

• My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over. I had it on VHS, rented it, and I watched it and said, 'I want to watch that again, right now.' I think I did the same with something like 'Goodfellas,' which is a completely different genre.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Different
  • Think

• Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Art

• Ch. 11 : LSD Experience and Reality

  

  Albert Hofmann
  • Experience
  • Reality

• I've always had to work hard for what I've got and to stay where I was.

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • Work

• To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.

  

  David Deutsch
  • Reality
  • Understanding

• My personal style is kind of tomboy-boho chic! Sort of funky but simple.

  

  Jessica Szohr
  • Simple
  • Style

• Film wise, I invariably look at my work and reckon I could have done it better. I'm also conscious that I'm in a profession where we get more praise than we should compared to the usefulness of what we do.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Work
  • Done
  • Wise

• I've got a vibe going on with a lot of what I've been doing, and to completely change it based off of me having a child might be a little confusing. I'm sure as my life goes forward, and she starts growing up, there will be a lot more things to include in my music. But, at this point, I'm just sticking to what I do.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• With 'The Crazies,' we had a lot of room to play and manipulate and change things. When you get something bigger, you have less control in that sense unless you're one of the three stars.

  

  Joe Anderson
  • Control

• No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

  

  Al Smith
  • Up
  • Christmas

• Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • Believe
  • Angry

• The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Small

• Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Shadow

• I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

  

  Rick Moody
  • Trying
  • Sadness
  • Memorable