Claire Messud Quotes
There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so.
Claire Messud
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
Owen Hart
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
Barbara Castle
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I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!
Kajol
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
Yoko Ono
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
S. E. Hinton
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When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
Walter Payton
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We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.
Donnie Wahlberg
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I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.
Adam Clayton
U2
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When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'
Candis Cayne
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Descartes may have made a lot of mistakes, but he was right about this: you cannot doubt the existence of your own consciousness. That's the first feature of consciousness, it's real and irreducible. You cannot get rid of it by showing that it's an illusion in a way that you can with other standard illusions.
John Searle
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There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so.
Claire Messud
