Claire Messud Quotes
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
Carlos Ghosn -
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
T. D. Jakes -
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
Irwin Shaw -
Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
Pat Conroy -
Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
R. Kelly -
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
Iman -
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi -
It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
Walker Stapleton -
I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
Earl Campbell -
I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
Gary Ross -
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
Natalia Kills -
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton -
I've had a few ditty hits.
Carlene Carter -
The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.
Edmund Morgan -
I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
Gautam Gambhir -
There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.
Wadah Khanfar
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I love everyone over at Netflix. They're all fantastic and an absolute joy to work with.
Aaron Paul -
Twitter-lutionaries are good at toppling regimes, but in the Mideast and North Africa, they're losing out to the Islamists, who've built protest movements the old-fashioned way. And in Moscow, the Mink revolutionaries, who are united by Live-Journal but not much else, were easy for Putin to outmaneuver.
Chrystia Freeland -
If your opponent has an exposed king it is frequently worth sacrificing a pawn to be able to bring your rooks into the game, especially if your opponent's rooks are languishing in the corner. Kasparov has made a career out of such sacrifices.
Neil McDonald -
When I dropped out of high school at age 16, I didn't know I was going to become a writer - I just knew I'd never been happy in school, and I had this strong suspicion I'd be happy doing other things.
Philipp Meyer -
You can't make a character do something they wouldn't do.
Claire Messud