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Sharan Burrow Quotes

Politically, we have seen the impact of social media organizing people through the Arab Spring.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: welsh
Birth: December 12, 1954

Topics

Social Media Spring People Impact

There were some summers when every boy in Ayrshire seemed to be playing golf, and my dad taught me. But he was a terrible teacher - of everything. Learning to drive with him almost killed me. He was the world's most impatient man - awful short fuse.

Learning Teacher Man Me World Drive

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

Learn More Human See Alike Than

You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!

Time Child You Body Back Your Body

We have shared responsibility for global climate; we have to reduce climate change below 2 degrees Celsius.

Change Responsibility Climate Change

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

Fitness People Me Heights Afraid

Mercer was very clever. He knew the way Southerners spoke and put that into his lyrics. But in that whole era, you had the best. Harold Arlen was just fantastic. Cole Porter was better than anybody, and Gershwin was Gershwin, y'know. Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole.

Best King Better You Way Clever

Thanks to malaria elimination efforts in United States in the 1940s, most people in the U.S. today have never had any direct contact with the disease, and most doctors have never seen a case. That success means it's easy to have a relaxed attitude about protecting ourselves.

Success Attitude Today People Easy

It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravity.

Alone Great Look Statistics I Can

I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.

Freedom I Am Stand View Political

I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has.

Passion Uniqueness Admire Bull Them

In our family, if you weren't competitive, you didn't eat. You had to fight for what you wanted.

Donald Trump, Jr.

Family Fight You Eat Competitive

I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

Love Passion Heart Beautiful Poetry

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