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Tim Cope Quotes

I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgments.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: australian
Birth: December 7, 1978

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People Society Think Choose Own Our

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'

Father Me Name Brooklyn Grandparents

We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for people who are being discriminated against. And it doesn't matter whether they are black or white, Latino, Asian or Native American, whether they are straight or gay, Muslim, Christian, or Jews.

People Stand Up Speak Black Help

I hear, 'But why do poor people make such bad decisions?' But actually, their decision-making can be far more complex than that of the better-off in many ways. They're not financially illiterate: they're constantly weighing up choices based on the reality of poverty. Somehow the international development community has resisted accepting this.

Community People Choices Reality Bad

You and I are streaming data engines.

Data You Streaming Engines

I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia.

People Enjoy Georgia Going Easier

The jig is up: I'm not a nice lady.

Lady Nice Up Jig

French people don't breastfeed. And I did it. My mum freaked out. She didn't get it at all. French royalty thought it wasn't chic to breastfeed their kids, so they would send them to a wet nurse. It's looked down on.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

People Thought Royalty Down She Out

I desperately want to visit the Galapagos and meet some giant tortoises.

Want Meet Giant Some Visit

Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.

Memory Never Dialogue Take Notes

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

God People You Heaven Down Sin

I wanted Luke Cage to very much be an African American superhero rather than a superhero that happens to be black. I felt it was important to give him that cultural grounding but also show that it doesn't make him an obtuse or one-sided character.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Character Black American Important

I was always the misfit jock who was with people painting on walls.

Walls People Painting Always Who

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