James McBride Quotes

I don't come from Lake Wobegon, and that world is not mine. It's not that funny to me. It's funny to other people, and I'm not judging it, but the world that I come from is not considered funny by other people as well. There's so much pain in it.

James McBride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 11, 1957

Topics

FunnyPainPeopleMeWorldLake

The first thing we need to understand when we think about globalization is that it has benefited an enormous number of people who are not part of the global elite.

Angus Deaton

PeopleThinkGlobalizationUnderstand

I always saw myself working for the family business.

Stephanie McMahon

FamilyBusinessMyselfAlwaysSaw

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

Donella Meadows

WisdomHonestyFreedomHumility

There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.

Chuck Schumer

VisionPerspectiveExperienceBecome

I've never taken the easy route. I don't even know what that is!

Bozoma Saint John

EasyKnowNeverEvenRouteTaken

If I lead my life according to someone else, I've screwed my life up.

Anushka Sharma

LifeMy LifeSomeoneLeadUpElse

I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.

Alice Englert

LifeTimeMyselfSchoolGrowing Up

Technologies like PayPal foster competition because they enable people to shift their funds from one jurisdiction to another, and I think that ultimately will lead to a world in which there's less government power and therefore more individual control.

Peter Thiel

PowerGovernmentCompetitionPeople

I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention - it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

Richard P. Feynman

NatureMeStandWorryYouWrong

I'm a radical, and I always have been.

Mort Sahl

AlwaysBeenRadical

Personally as an actress, when I work on something, that's it and then I move onto the next thing. I'm not someone who sits and watches my stuff. I like to go onto the next thing that I'm working on, and the thing that's been completed is completed.

Juliet Landau

WorkSomeoneWatchesGoSomething

I think the whole movement of #MeToo is not just calling out the sexual harassers, which is really important, but also crying out that we want equal pay, equal representation, equal opportunities, and that we want to see more female directors and photographers.

Jamie Chung

OpportunitiesThinkImportantWant

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