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Claire Messud Quotes

At university, my generation were ready to fight, but we didn't really have anything to fight for.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1966

Topics

Fight Generation Ready Anything Were

Cities are important because that's where the majority of the world's population lives and an even bigger share of the global economy resides.

Jens Martin Skibsted

World Important Economy Bigger Share

I've always studied our empires to empower myself, you know, and to have ammunition against anybody who could try to put me down.

Myself Me You Down Know Empower

Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did.

Michael Ignatieff

King Bible Language Better Years He

I certainly wouldn't want to be the man who was compared to John Ritter through my eyes.

Eyes Man Want Through Who John

I feel pretty comfortable in front of a camera.

Feel Camera Comfortable Pretty Front

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

Great College Win Graduation Back

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Mary Baker Eddy

Love Happiness Truth Alone Spiritual

Considering I'm a young president, I wouldn't like to make an evaluation of myself. It's not my job to do that.

Dmitry Medvedev

Myself Job Young President Like

I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes, and to not just try our tastes is a crime.

Feel Kind Crime Try Mean See

While religious fundamentalism is treated as a serious social problem because it has the potential to lead to rare but devastating acts of terrorism against the public, with a variety of programmes and interventions to address it, everyday violence against women occurring in the name of fundamentalism has long been neglected.

Women Potential Name Problem Long

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

Christopher McCandless

Passion Man Adventure Living Spirit

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

Courage Right See Cowardice

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