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
Quotes to Explore
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
Patrick Swayze -
I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
Barbara Sukowa -
In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
Randall Kennedy -
I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
Landon Donovan -
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 -
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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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
Yoko Ono -
I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
S. E. Hinton -
Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.
Rachel Platten -
I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
Campbell Scott -
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
Harold Coffin -
It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
Orison Swett Marden
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
Fat Joe -
So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
Sally Ride -
Fun opens the doors to creativity, which then leads to inspiration, which then births passion, which all together equals both happiness and success!
Rachele Brooke Smith -
We've just been nostalgic about old-school hip hop, listening to it at home and looking at people like Slick Rick and all those guys who used to wear huge jewellery.
Yoon Ahn -
To win Olympic gold has been a dream for me for seven or eight years now, so it was amazing to actually achieve that.
Adam Peaty
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
Denis Diderot -
When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.
J. Michael Straczynski -
People can sense when someone is fake or real on TV.
Joey Fatone NSYNC -
I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.
Saffron Burrows -
Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.
Lennart Meri -
There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so.
Claire Messud