Claire Messud Quotes
My tendencies are much more the Henry James thing, where we sit in silence at the table for three minutes, and our whole lives are changed because of a revelation that never quite happens but almost bubbles to the surface.Claire Messud
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
Daniel Cormier -
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
Kanye West -
Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
Vijay Mallya -
I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.
J. D. Souther -
Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
Jackson Pollock -
Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.
Naveen Jain
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I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.
Wayne Rogers -
I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.
Laura Wade -
I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
Ramakrishna -
I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.
Walt Disney -
Excess is excrement.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
The way those sons-of-bitches took advantage of me. Warhol is a sadistic faggot.
Edie Sedgwick
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Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.
Frances Bean Cobain -
Fuck a needle, here's a sword, body pierce with this.
Eminem -
If there are any who believe that immigrants to this country, most of whom have already become British citizens, could be forcibly deported because they are coloured people...then that I must repudiate, absolutely and completely.
Edward Heath -
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
In the old dramas it was love that had to be sacrificed to painful duty. In the modern instance the sacrifice is at the shrine of what William James called 'the Bitch Goddess, Success.' Love is to be abandoned for the stern pursuit of newspaper notoriety and dollars.
Aldous Huxley -
Existence is illusory and it is eternal.
Albert Camus
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I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever.
Philippe Perrin -
I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.
John Linder -
In fact, I learned on the Bill Maher show that I can survive the audience booing at me, the guests hating me, Sarah Silverman mocking me, that I can survive. That's a lesson right there for people on the right.
Andrew Breitbart -
A vigorous mind shut out from outer stimuli finds in this circumstance the time to develop leisurely, finds a freedom from distraction that leads to clear views of life and a proper expression.
Abraham Myerson -
Truth is like a bell. We strike it, and then the beautiful resonance of sound fades into silence.
Rumi -
My tendencies are much more the Henry James thing, where we sit in silence at the table for three minutes, and our whole lives are changed because of a revelation that never quite happens but almost bubbles to the surface.
Claire Messud