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John Burnham Schwartz Quotes

In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.

John Burnham Schwartz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1965

Topics

Family American Company Tokyo Lived

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

War Sister Bride Gray First Over

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

Work Nature Today Death Planning

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Culture People Feel Cheating You

I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years.

Steven Cojocaru

Grateful Talk Years Something Last

Despite all the evidence that Hispanics are not single-issue voters, Republican candidates are told that if they say harsh things about sanctuary cities, American jobs lost to illegal labor, or scandalous border security, Latino voters will punish them by voting Democrat.

Border Voting American Security Lost

We need the federal government to assert their supremacy over the immigration issue and make it clear to state legislatures, cowboy cops, and the American people that the federal government is in charge and effectively enforcing and regulating immigration.

Government People American Need Over

Women make a terrible mistake because they usually are so desperate to nest that they pick on schlubs and worthless pieces of trash that they pick up in a bar.

Women Mistake Trash Nest Bar Up

English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right - as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet.

Right Left Concepts English Alphabet

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

Jonathan Galassi

Myself Poetry Explain Always Out

I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Opportunities Movies Awesome Just

I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction.

Science Great People Science Fiction

I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.

Alice McDermott

Great Liars Stories Fondness

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