Leslie Jamison Quotes

Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.

Leslie Jamison

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Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly.

Jim Otto

GameYouNeverSingleEveryoneBeat

I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.

Joel Schumacher

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For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

John Barrowman

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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

Anna Freud

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I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.

Stephan Pastis

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There's no destination. The journey is all that there is, and it can be very, very joyful.

Srikumar Rao

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I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.

Steve McQueen

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To defeat Islamic extremist terrorism, we must put them on defense. If they are at war against us - which they have declared - we must commit ourselves to unconditional victory against them.

Rudy Giuliani

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Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it; it is given life only through the national mind, that is to say, by political faith, which is a creed.

Joseph de Maistre

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I'm extremely patriotic. I'll always be Canadian.

Diego Klattenhoff

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Being an iconic food company can be both a blessing and a curse. It can be a curse if, amidst change, you maintain the status quo. It is a blessing if you leverage the change coupled with capability to seize new opportunities.

Denise Morrison

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