Loretta Napoleoni Quotes

Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime. Rogue economics is turning the global market into our worst nightmare.

Loretta Napoleoni

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IgnoranceEconomicsBlackFishWorst

Training readers to expect a voice or subject matter from me would interfere with the reinvention I crave. At the same time, I feel almost too able to disappear at times.

Jennifer Egan

TimeTrainingMeVoiceFeelMatter

I have the kind of life where I can take my kids on trips with me. I can involve them in my work. I've always avoided politics because I didn't want to make commitments that would take me away from raising these children.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

LifeWorkChildrenPoliticsMeKind

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).

Matthew Sweet

MusicMyselfMoreOutJustRecords

I grew up in the city of Detroit, where a lot of people didn't have work opportunities, but they were good, hard-working people, including I had a single mom who took care of me and my brother.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

WorkGoodBrotherPeopleCityMom

There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.

Robert Wyatt

WorkLivePeopleMy OwnOutOwn

I never thought America would be stupid enough to put this idiot in the White House. Up until a half hour before they declared Trump the winner, I still thought that it wouldn't happen. I never thought that we, as a nation, had fallen so much that we would be foolish enough to do that.

Ron Stallworth

StupidThoughtAmericaWinnerIdiot

I would like to thank all my tennis fans who were there from Day One when I was No. 1, through my stabbing, and my comeback.

Monica Seles

DayComebackTennisThroughFans

Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.

Michael Korda

LifeStarsWriteGetMemoirMovie

I think women of my age are still attractive.

Diana Rigg

WomenAgeThinkAttractiveStill

Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.

Marianne Williamson

ReligionDestinationImportantMap

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Henry Kissinger

HistoryCountryWhateverBeenMost

In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.

David Mitchell

GoodAgeBestPeopleYoungThree

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