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Howard Jacobson Quotes

What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: August 25, 1942

Topics

World Opera Reasons Cardboard Houses

Most parents were, like, Little League coaches and all that. My dad was a wrestling fan. Instead of going out and playing home run derby with my old man, we just watched wrestling together.

Home Together Man Parents Old Man

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

Melanie Lynskey

Myself Feel Talking Kind Something

I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.

Me Feel Comfortable Try Everyone

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

Kindness Food Simple Help You Poor

I don't know what tomorrow holds. None of us do. We got to wait and see what God has planned.

God Tomorrow Wait Know See Planned

It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.

Time Teeth Own Reform Save Scandals

I don't want to do something that I've done before; I can't see the point of it.

Done Want See Point Something

One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.

Love Art World Fashion Opera Big

Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment that's 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math.

Live Community Children School Treat

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.

Science Walk World You Living Web

I don't really go mountain biking per se, like a proper sport.

Mountain Go Like Proper Really Per

When I was a journalist, I didn't care how many people talked to Ice Cube before I talked Ice Cube. I just knew that when I talked to Ice Cube, it was going to be different than what anybody else had done, and it was the same with any group.

Cheo Hodari Coker

People Care Be Different Ice Done

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