Cory Booker Quotes

When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.

Cory Booker

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FamilySpiritualPeopleCityRoots

The coffee's good in Italy. It's good in Spain. It's good in Istanbul. The coffee's not so good in America.

Joey Kramer

GoodCoffeeAmericaSpainIstanbul

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Anais Nin

ArtPerceptionMeaningMagicNewUp

The Middle East is a very difficult stage to play upon. Without doubt, it is a good drama. And on occasion, there are situations so unimaginable, if not ludicrous, as to make them almost comic. But the cast is constantly changing, the audience is often disengaged, and it seems at times that no one is actually running the show.

Jason Alexander

GoodDoubtDramaPlayDifficult

I had no intention of being an entertainer.

Don Ho

IntentionBeingEntertainerHad

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

Douglass North

JobYoungWashingtonChessBrilliant

The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad.

Chrystia Freeland

LeaderSilenceWorldCriticismFirst

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Anne Fadiman

LearningMyselfPeopleMeLiterature

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.

Willie Nelson

IgnoranceHurtYouBackMoreOut

To cast Ida, it took ages, and I was a bit desperate. I couldn't find somebody I could believe in. I spent months looking for the lead among young actresses and drama students.

Pawel Pawlikowski

LookingBelieveFindDramaYoung

We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.

Sebastiao Salgado

StupidSurviveBornLivingLandUs

Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece.

Noam Chomsky

SocietyTrueTaxesPayPrettyBeen

Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

FlyingNewsAfricaHardEuropeOut

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