Claire Messud Quotes
There's this moment when kids realize that they have power and that they can use it.
Claire Messud
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Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.
Vincent Bugliosi
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
Ozwald Boateng
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On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.
Gary Oldman
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
Carl Honore
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
Hal Sparks
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Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.
Ed Miliband
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What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
Paul Wellstone
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Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.
Kurt Vonnegut
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My father was a Democrat.
Johnny Van Zant
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.
Rob Zombie
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I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.
Bob Riley
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There's this moment when kids realize that they have power and that they can use it.
Claire Messud
