Claire Messud Quotes

For many of us, we set out thinking there will be time in the future, and then suddenly we find ourselves at a moment when we have to acknowledge that the future isn't infinite.

Claire Messud

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When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

Michael Caine

BetterSomeoneYouYoungFighter

I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.

Roger Maris

GameThinkPrivacyGoingMostHad

People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation.

Mary Beard

PeopleEnergyOthersWonderingCome

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

Judy Biggert

MarriageLeftFounding FathersSecond

Nets are generally defined as devices for capturing something. In a more narrow but more important sense, we might define a net as anything that entices or prevents us from following the call of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Years ago when you'd go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be.

Jon Postel

PeopleBuildingCareInternetYou

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

Christina Ricci

GirlMenAlwaysLittleWellLike

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.

Allan Sherman

FamilyHistoryGreatStandTable

I vividly remember watching women in films when I was nine or 10, picturing them being what I'd be like as an adult. I had these real female crushes on certain actresses. And I'd watch them, thinking, 'One day, I'll be that. One day I'll be a woman.'

Alicia Vikander

WomenDayWomanThinkingRemember

Basketball is my first love. If my health had permitted me, I would still be playing, but I am glad in retrospect that everything happened the way it did.

Tucker Halpern

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The basis of Ronald Reagan was his humanity. I might not have agreed with his politics, but my research - all I read about him and by him - was that he was revered because he had a big heart. He was very religious and sincere. He believed that one spoke truths because, otherwise, people would know you were lying. None of that even applies to Trump.

Tim Matheson

HeartPoliticsPeopleResearchYou

I looked back on the roaring Twenties - with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby,' and the pre-Code films - as a party I had somehow managed to miss. After World War Two, I expected something similar, a return to the period after the first war, but when the skirt lengths went down instead of up, I knew we were in big trouble.

Hugh Hefner

GreatWarWorldBackDownParty

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