Julianna Baggott Quotes

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

Julianna Baggott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
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  • Birth: September 30, 1969

Topics

CultureMeWorldPoliticalWorry

We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems.

Jim Hunt

GoodRelationshipBestManGood Man

Writers of color are given certain messages - explicit or implicit - about what they're allowed to write about or what will be successful if they write about it. And white writers are given another set of implicit and, sometimes, explicit messages.

Jess Row

ColorWhiteSometimesWillWrite

We've had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the 'colored only' signs come off the water fountains and bathrooms in the south. But the struggle lives on.

Mavis Staples

ChangeGreatWaterStruggleGrateful

GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can help business invest in our shared future.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

FutureBusinessGovernmentHelpMore

For 30 years I've been responsible for managing client money, and it's been a joy, but at some point I need to move on. Thirty years is enough.

Stanley Druckenmiller

MoneyJoyEnoughMove OnThirty

I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.

Simon Schama

ChildrenGreatTimeI AmOpinionAm

At some point, I'll have to go get a real job.

Simone Biles

JobGoRealPointGetSome

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

Ruth Benedict

PurposeWorldDifferencesHumanSafe

I think we will be safer when we can concentrate law enforcement and criminal justice resources and energies on those individuals who truly need, for the safety of society... to be incarcerated.

Matt Bevin

JusticeSafetyLawLaw Enforcement

I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody.

Christopher Cross

WalkFireFeelYouNowWant

Once you catch that fever of wrestling, you really can't get it out.

Bobby Lashley

YouWrestlingOutCatchFeverGet

Domestic wiretaps, government television cameras blanketing our streets, spy drones by the thousands flying over our heads. It makes you wonder if the very foundation of this great country, which is liberty, is eroding right before our eyes.

Bob Beckel

EyesGreatGovernmentFlyingYou

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