Tom Bissell Quotes

I'd been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart.

Tom Bissell

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DreamsDayCityHomelessProblem

I quite often don't have breakfast, and I never have lunch. I find it helps not to wake my stomach up because if I had a good big breakfast, I would be ready for a snack at 11 and then a three-course lunch, then I'd be ready for tea, then a cocktail and then an enormous dinner.

Joanna Lumley

GoodTeaBreakfastLunchDinner

There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place.

Jodie Foster

MeStoryYouPlaceKnowPersonal

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

Matt Taibbi

ConstructionCorruptionWayBeen

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

Stephen Ambrose

EmotionsPassionateResignationEven

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

Tracy Morgan

SmartYouDumbIntelligentJokeGet

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

Martin O'Malley

LiveParentsWinWorldAdaptMust

For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums.

Michel Faber

DownBurnAtheistYearsTurnQuite

A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us and we will win.

Mitt Romney

WinWillCompetitiveUsDivideDoes

Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value.

Joseph Brant

ValueKingHardLittleOurMuch

I love that Mel Gibson.

Jon Gruden

LoveI LoveGibson

Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it is absolutely available to all of us.

Colum McCann

HopeMeBelieveSillySayEmbrace

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.

Winona Ryder

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