John Pomfret Quotes

But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.

John Pomfret

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I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

Jesmyn Ward

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I love my children and care greatly for their future. If they decide they just want to loaf around for a bit between the ages of 16 and 25, that's perfectly fine by me. I did it, and I'm doing fine, thanks. Sometimes 'leaving kids to their own devices' is the best thing for them.

John Niven

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In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.

John Lasseter

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Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

Angela Duckworth

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In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities.

Spencer Bachus

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I like the House. The House is where you can effect the most change. It's such a fast-moving dynamic body compared to the Senate.

Steve Scalise

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In 'The Hate U Give,' I play Big Mav', who was incarcerated for a number of years and is raising three children. He was a gang member but reformed himself, and he's trying to empower his children, help them understand the best way to keep out of trouble.

Russell Hornsby

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I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

Michael Moore

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I'm the oldest and I've got two sisters.

Lisa Snowdon

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For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done.

Diana Nyad

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If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

Annie Lennox

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I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.

Anne Lamott

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