Claire Messud Quotes

To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.

Claire Messud

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• I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Gender

• I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• The militia had the same equipment as the military to protect them against the tyrannical government. It's more important today than ever that we uphold our Second Amendment.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Important
  • Today
  • Government

• I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Home

• I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Music
  • True
  • Guy

• Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Party
  • Short
  • Often

• Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Wealth
  • Lead
  • Inequalities

• I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.

  

  Imelda May
  • Home
  • Myself
  • Walking

• If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • People
  • Know
  • Artist

• The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Team
  • Organization

• I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Before
  • Sixteen
  • Partying

• I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Successful

• Mainly I love working on good writing.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Working

• I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Think
  • Relax
  • Aging

• The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty
  • Idea

• Smith had no illusion that this would be easy to do, nor did he suffer from the delusion that such an exercise would, in any sense, be perfect. But he did have the conviction that the exercise could still be very useful, and the best should not be made into an enemy of the good.

  

  Amartya Sen
  • Good
  • Perfect
  • Enemy

• The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Death
  • Hate
  • Joy

• There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the day. Life is my guru.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Life
  • Up
  • Attention

• A racist and misogynist should not be a president in 21st-century America.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • America

• You know, people always ask me how I describe my music. First of all I tell them that's their job and then that also one day I hope to have things referred to as Martha Wainwright -esque.

  

  Martha Wainwright
  • People
  • Music
  • Job

• You might measure your approach to a horse the same way as your approach to people because there are going to be some horses, like some people, who might be inclined to tune you out.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • People
  • Horse

• Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Police
  • Express
  • Web

• I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • People
  • Why
  • Mother

• To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.

  

  Claire Messud