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Jessamyn West Quotes

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 18, 1902 - February 23, 1984

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Change Facts Ignore Want Fit Easier

There is nothing worse for me than sitting in traffic. That's what killed me in L.A.

Me Traffic Sitting Nothing Worse

If you can do something great in 60 seconds, you can do anything, really.

Joanne Froggatt

Great You Anything Something Seconds

The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Great Words Artist Pictures Others

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.

Depression Money I Am Height Earning

As exhausted as they may be, Republicans need to appeal to their sense of consciousness. To their principles. To what is right and wrong. To American values.

American Values Wrong Principles May

It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent.

Funny Me Questions Finding Yesterday

Most people don't even know what a trombone is. It's not that popular as a front instrument... I picked it up and fell in love with it as a kid. It's a difficult instrument, but I like doing things that seem impossible.

Trombone Shorty

Love People Impossible Doing Know

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

You Look Want Never See Maps

I'm willing to put my body on the line and stuff like that, just to get a taste of that greatness.

Greatness Body Line Taste Get Stuff

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Knowledge You Know True

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.

Today Children Food Rest Easy News

My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.

Life Childhood Growing Up Growing Up

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