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Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

Romesh Gunesekera

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Author Profession: author
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Birth: 1954

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Kind Side Been Decades Other Every

Arizona has a great workforce in Tucson with companies like Raytheon and Bombardier.

Great Workforce Arizona Like

The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't even been able to stand up for our jobs.

Jennifer Granholm

Organization World Stand Up Stand Up

My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

Time Job Past Writing Beyond Never

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

Time School Enough Way Years Out

I have a 6-year-old daughter, and we never look through magazines. But when we're on a plane, that's the one time we have screen-time and magazine-time sometimes. And I do not open a magazine with her without saying: 'Now remind me, are these real pictures?'

Daughter Time Me Saying Look Never

L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends.

Live People Think Friends You Go

When you haven't got a job, a joke is about the only thing that's free.

Job Free You Joke Got Only

I guess I'm flattered that people think I can help get things done.

People Think Help I Can Done Things

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

Love Experience Poetry Fate Talking

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Purpose Possible Need Existence Own

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

Me Believe Demons Race My Own Own

I was working two landscaping jobs; I was recording songs in the spare bedroom. I would get up at 4 A.M., go to work, get back at 6 P.M., have nap, then start recording, just go until I fell asleep.

Joshua Ostrander

Work Start Back Go Nap Bedroom

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