James McBride Quotes

It would be nice if we redefined what we meant by 'war story.' If you're making $15,000 a year living in a certain area of Portland, trying to make it with three kids and no husband, that's a kind of war.

James McBride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Jerry A. Webman

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My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.

Jerry Lewis

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The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.

John Garamendi

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When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

Andy Andrews

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People think of me and think, 'Ibiza and hippy look.' I'm trying to expand.

Matthew Williamson

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I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.

Jeff Buckley

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Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

Michael Frayn

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We must recognize that we cannot allow the Islamic State to continue to present an existential threat to America.

Mike Pompeo

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The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are doing on a daily basis. You just turn up and get on with it.

Luke Evans

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Everybody thinks people who promote PETA don't eat meat, but I think animals were made to be eaten.

Dominique Swain

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The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

Dick Armey

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I'm honored if I can inspire somebody else.

Demi Moore

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