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Jess Walter Quotes

The war in Iraq, the abuse of detainees, electronic eavesdropping, Guantanamo Bay - these things were all done on our behalf and they may turn out in the end to have created more terrorists.

Jess Walter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 20, 1965

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War End Done More Turn Out

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

John Green

Build Places Where Productive Books

I think it's really a sign of great American strength that we do invest the money we do in technology, in these hard projects, in NASA.

John M. Grunsfeld

Strength Technology Great Money NASA

There's a reason screens are only this thick.

John Malkovich

Reason Only Screens Thick

I think my parents - my mother in particular - always believed I should go as far as I could with my studies. There was no pressure, but at each step there were people who you admired, and you strived to those levels.

Stanley Wojcicki

Mother Step Parents People Think Go

The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.

Mick Ebeling

Change Perspective Small Believe Big

Klaus from the Teddybears, Bloodshy and Avant and Mike Snow, they've done lots of Britney Spears production. They went backwards from production to being in a band, which might be cool. I might do that, too, one day.

Diplo

Snow Day Cool Done One Day Band

I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

David Soul

Opportunity Children Path Believe

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

David Strathairn

Culture Learn Literature Tell Film

So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.

Anthony Braxton

Home I Am Yes Like Underground Am

Maybe I should have a scandal - then I can be on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

Stars I Can Dancing Scandal Should

I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers.

Ali Landry

Feel Strangers Meeting Meet Just

When I'm in Los Angeles, my wife and I go to the farmers' market with the kids every Sunday.

Wolfgang Puck

Wife Sunday Los Angeles Go Farmers