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John Pomfret Quotes

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.

John Pomfret

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american

Topics

Life Work Experience American Person

The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.

Jim James

Soul Early Through Pretty Funk Era

Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience.

Jerry Stiller

Me Down Audience Idea Hated Front

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

John Gunther

Green Golf Ball Like Golf Ball

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert H. Schuller

Motivational Problems Stop Signs

As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA's detrimental impact on the Mexican workers.

Stephen F. Lynch

Impact Economy Mexican Workers Seen

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

Solomon Ortiz

Life Father Pain Joy World New Life

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

Tori Amos

Love Girl Myself Cold Feet Walking

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

Tone Loc

Man Fighting Trying You Know Out

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

Tony Campolo

Change Community Sick Stand Up Stand

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

Jay McInerney

World Know Through Center Trade Did

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Excellence Woman Man Others More

Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown bears in Alaska and was once charged by a black bear. I love bears.

Joseph Monninger

Love I Am Fly Black Down Bear