Emmanuel Jal Quotes

I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?

Emmanuel Jal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: 1980

Topics

PeopleThoughtYouHeavenNewKnow

I always played games with my friends, but as I got older, my friends stopped playing.

Jenova Chen

FriendsGamesAlwaysPlayingGot

Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

Anna Eshoo

ValueAmericanPrivacyPersonalHeld

I loved 'Les Miz' and 'Into the Woods' - I used to cast 'Into the Woods' with my friends, even if they'd never stepped on stage before.

Rory O'Malley

WoodsLovedFriendsNeverStage

Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of males? I have asked my god that question and She answered, 'Hey, why not you Roseanne?' Indeed, why not each of us?

Roseanne Barr

GodIntelligenceWorldYouWhyDeaf

I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency.

Mike Fitzpatrick

TodayI AmFaceNewsSpecialUnited

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

Mitch Daniels

AcceptWillNationAlwaysMustEver

Even in Canada, I never even played ice hockey. I never skated in my life; I always did rollerblade street hockey.

Milos Raonic

LifeHockeyMy LifeIceCanadaEven

I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation.

Lou Barlow

SchoolHigh SchoolConversationKnow

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.

Lorde

ShortFictionTowerLikeReadLot

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

Jean Cocteau

PoetryOnlyIndispensableKnew

I always think long term about anything. That's why I have never sold anything that I've ever purchased. And I never purchase anything that I don't think I'm going to keep for a lifetime.

Donald Sterling

ValueLosingWinningBetterYouSay

I wish I hadn't said I'm going to retire.

Bradley Wiggins

WishSaidI WishRetireGoing

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