Rebecca Makkai Quotes

Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.

Rebecca Makkai

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We can't pretend that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend you've shared times with together, both good times and difficult times.

Joanna Coles

GoodFriendTogetherGood TimesYou

Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!

Andy Cohen

HopeInterestingPartyGuestsGet

In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.

Andrea Bocelli

ListeningSingingYouEmotionsWant

I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.

Meg Whitman

TimeThinkI CanWantFocused

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

Robert Kiyosaki

MoneySilverPreciousMetalAlso

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

Anita Diament

LoveMusicWorldJazzKindsPop

Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.

John Sergeant Wise

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I love a woman in a tuxedo, or in a dress, who looks comfortable, relaxed, happy. I'd love to dress Daphne Guinness - she has exactly that attitude.

Stephane Rolland

LoveAttitudeWomanDressHappyShe

Parenting advice is mostly useless because every family is uniquely its own; artistic advice is mostly useless because every artist works in their own way. Thus, figuring out how to balance the two has an intense specificity.

Rumaan Alam

FamilyParentingBalanceAdviceWay

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

Michael Moore

LoveLiveTimeMenPeopleCollege

At no time was I trying to write a crossover record.

Luis Fonsi

TimeTryingWriteNo TimeRecord

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

Louis Farrakhan

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