Claire Messud Quotes

We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I think women's anger sits less well than anything else.

Claire Messud

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WomenLiveCultureAngerFaceThink

I feel like the sky in my mind is bigger when I meditate. It helps you fight the classic battles we're all fighting: trying to find love, trying to find satisfaction in your career.

Jim James

LoveSkyFightMindFightingYou

A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.

John Sununu

PathEffortWinValuesDownWant

I found through my fan mail that women... really wanted a role model.

Donna Mills

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The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

Chauncey Wright

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I like the movie 'Das Boot,' the German film made in the '80s. I found out it was a series that was made into a film for the U.S.

Courtney Gains

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All movies, when they're about the music business, tend to have a bit of a wide latitude in terms of how things really were.

Chris Squire

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I'll read anything Anne Carson writes, anything J. M. Coetzee writes, and anything Cormac McCarthy writes. I'll drop whatever I'm doing to read a new Mary Ruefle essay.

Anthony Doerr

DoingNewWhateverAnythingEssay

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

Pope John Paul II

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I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

Sebastian Horsley

NatureBelieveThinkDieYouBorn

No matter what the situation, I try to have fun. I get pulled over by the police, I'm like, 'Oh, this going to be the best arrest ever.' And I end up making friends with these police officers.

Tiffany Haddish

BestPoliceFunHave FunEndMatter

Maybe I'm an elitist, but I don't feel like I am.

Kim Deal

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I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life. Your innocent understanding of the world moves towards something messier and more complicated, and once it does you can never go back.

Khaled Hosseini

LifeChildrenMyselfChildhoodWorld

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