Claire Messud Quotes

If I hear a story or a fact about somebody I don't know and have never met, it's like getting a hollow vessel that you can fill up with whatever you want. That's more tempting to me than to try to replicate what I actually know.

Claire Messud

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MeStoryYouKnowWantNever

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Jesse Jackson

HeartMindBelieveI CanAchieve

Aid can only reach the victims of war by paying off the warlords and, sometimes, extending the war.

Angus Deaton

WarReachSometimesOffOnlyAid

The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.

Michael E. Mann

HockeyTroubleBecomeGlobal Warming

I'm in the lucky position financially where I don't have to do things I don't want to do.

Amanda Holden

WantLuckyPositionThingsWhere

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

Rod Taylor

BirthdayMeNightLovedPartyShe

I got a lot of film companies approaching me to write some songs for their films.

Juicy J

MeWriteGotFilmSongsSome

Train hard, train hard, train hard.

Jason Momoa

TrainHard

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

Jose Marti

GodBeautifulManHumanHimWithin

In the Soyuz, the little Russian capsule, you can actually hear the banging of the big shield, the big heat shield on the bottom, as it slowly erodes away from the heat and pieces of it fly off like sparks across your window, and it's an interesting thing to ride through, you know.

Chris Hadfield

RideWindowFlyInterestingYouBig

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.

Christine Quinn

New YorkCitySmallThinkImmigrants

I always think that some of those moms who are rocking cool fashion looks while walking their little babies in a stroller is just the bomb. You don't have to, all of a sudden, have to transition into 'mom' outfits from the '90s just because you became a mom.

Coco Rocha

CoolMomFashionThinkWalkingYou

The secret of my success is that I deeply respect and learn from my peers and customers.

Brendon Burchard

SuccessRespectLearnSecretPeers

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