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Colum McCann Quotes

I think we need stories, and we need to tell the stories over and over and over not only to remind us, but to be able to have that clarity of experience that changes us, so that we know who we are now because of who we have been at some other time.

Colum McCann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: irish
Birth: February 28, 1965

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Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

Jodi Kantor

Marriage Alone Neighbor Difficult

I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father's side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I'm a hybrid.

Jessica Hagedorn

Father Mother American You White

One of Obama's first major acts as president was to sign the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and some of the money in that bill went to Saft.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Money American First Recovery Act

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

Max Beerbohm

Good Better Matter Nonsense Things

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

Angelina Jolie

Mistakes Choices You Bold Person Up

I think, as time passes, people will come to see that the United States' credit standing is really not quite the same level as the ones that we rate AAA.

John T. Chambers

Time People Think Credit Time Passes

Listen, I'm the champ, and I'm not going to pick and choose who I fight.

Stipe Miocic

Fight Choose Listen Going Who Pick

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event.

Mike Ferguson

Death Washington Event Only Would

The whole idea of juicing is good if you are trying to diet and use it in limited basis. I use juice drinks only once a week. I use emulsified drinks because in emulsification you are keeping everything. You are keeping the pulp, you are keeping the skin with all of the phytonutrients.

Montel Williams

Good Diet Week Trying You Skin

I want viewers to see that everything is connected, even the little guys like pollinators and flowers.

Louie Schwartzberg

Flowers Want Connected See Little

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Person More Danger Away Who Than

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

Jonny Lang

Music Style People Intention Done