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Lemn Sissay Quotes

To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: 1967

Topics

Money Child Parents People Wealth

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.' But anything can happen to a Chinese American girl - just as much of the canon of English literature involves white men or women.

Women Girl Men Writing American You

It's been amazing to see how brands, magazines, and designers are focusing on real stories from older women.

Women Amazing Older Women Real See

I've had a private pilot's license for years and flown all round the U.K. and over to France.

Pilot Over Years France License Had

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.

America Violence You Go Matter Turn

Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.

Steven Pressfield

Work Change Power Moment Destiny

The first Friday of every month is what we call Numbers Day - it's the day that the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the monthly jobs report. We have a ritual at the Labor Department - at 8 A.M., we gather around a table in my office, and the commissioner of labor statistics briefs me and the department's senior leadership on the numbers.

Leadership Day Me Friday Statistics

Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

Mitch McConnell

Change Relationship Me Problem Looks

I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible.

City Survive Learn Dangerous Village

I advise wannabe singers to form a band, practise in your garage if you have to, but do as many charity or open mic shows as possible to get experience. I sang for seven years before getting a record deal, and I was already loving what I was doing. I just got lucky and got discovered.

Experience Charity Doing You Loving

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Anne Bradstreet

Age Time Old Age Youth Improving

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

Day People World Unexpected Young

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Leonardo da Vinci

Honor Virtue Memorial Day Who

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