Richard Kerry Quotes

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

Richard Kerry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: diplomat
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 28, 1915 - July 29, 2000

Topics

Black And WhiteWorldBlackWhite

My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.

Jill Soloway

WorkCommunityMoreWriteInterest

Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will.

John Grogan

FamilyDogParentsPeopleGoodbye

Other writers know what you're going through, what you're talking about when you write.

Andrew Sean Greer

TalkingYouKnowWriteGoingAbout

I like to walk around. And I have a really big garden in Brooklyn. Growing tomatoes in my backyard feels very rewarding.

Anna Ewers

WalkBrooklynGardenGrowingBig

Because of my success in the private sector, I had the chance to run America's largest city for 12 years, governing in the wake of its greatest tragedy.

Michael Bloomberg

SuccessCityChanceAmericaTragedy

My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping into the furniture on stage.

Toni Tennille

DanceMeFurnitureJazzMoreStage

Telling a story about someone has enormous power. People forget a headline. They remember a story.

Michelle Dean

PowerPeopleStorySomeoneRemember

What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

BeautyNothingAlwaysSomethingLies

I grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6.

Julia Michaels

CaliforniaUpSantaIowaMovedGrew

The thing is, I haven't changed at all.

Doris Lessing

ChangedThing

I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.

Christine Quinn

TalkingDoneComplainingThings

Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem from a disdain that suffering is happening at all.

Clint Smith

EmpathySufferingUsStemRather

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