Lee Tergesen Quotes

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.

Lee Tergesen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 8, 1965

Topics

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I need the lightness of children's lit.

Jesmyn Ward

ChildrenNeedLitLightness

In my own case, my folks didn't actually object to comics, as many parents did, but they pretty much felt the things were a waste of time.

Michael Dirda

TimeParentsMy OwnOwnPretty

I have this thing I used to say at home and in the office: If somebody is calling, unless it's somebody who can fire me, I'll call them back later.

John Skipper

HomeFireMeBackSayOffice

I have seen ups and downs. I am 10 films old. People say I have changed. But, I don't sense any change in myself. If I had to change, I would have changed in my second or third film.

Rohit Shetty

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I delight in offending people. I think the grievance brigade, victimhood, the idea that hurt feelings are some kind of special currency - I think that needs to come to an end.

Milo Yiannopoulos

PeopleThinkHurtEndFeelingsKind

I don't often watch something I've done on TV. Usually, I'll change the channel and watch something else.

Jonathan Levine

ChangeDoneWatchSomethingTVElse

I suppose for a very long time I've been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

Jordan Peterson

LifeTimePeopleFaceMeaningLong

I think there is some real therapy in getting your hands in the dirt and working with food.

Jon Tester

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This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

Brian Ferneyhough

ReflectionPossiblePainfulOnly

What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.

Brad Sherman

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It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!

Anne Sullivan

ExperiencePeopleAdviceOpinions

I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to describe villainy or to identify the perpetrator of it. The man who makes a chattel of his brother - what is he? The man who keeps back the hire of his laborers by fraud - what is he?

William Lloyd Garrison

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