Brendan I. Koerner Quotes

The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.

Brendan I. Koerner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 21, 1974

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My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

Meghan O'Rourke

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My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.

Michael Cerveris

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To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

Simone Weil

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I am the people's politician. If the day should ever come when the people can't save me, I'll know I'm finished.

Shirley Chisholm

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Do you think I really care what Jeff Gordon says?

Robby Gordon

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Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

Robert Bresson

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I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don't share that belief.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Brazil's commitment to sustainable development is a deep-rooted one. It permeates our public policies and our actions abroad.

Michel Temer

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We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more.

Johnny Knoxville

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It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in her crib when I knew full well that a little rocking in her glider, maybe a song and a sweet nuzzle of her cheek would send her off to dreamland.

Denene Millner

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I'm someone who just likes being in my cave and thinking up weird stuff.

Colson Whitehead

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I live a very leisurely life. When I do work, it's not work: it's great fun and exciting and fresh. New, wonderful, talented people. It's great pleasure and great fun.

Cloris Leachman

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