Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

I think how veterans are treated in our country is an abomination. We don't have the draft any more, which is why so many soldiers come from working-class - rather than middle- or high-income families. Those wealthier families aren't affected, so they're not agitating for change.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 23, 1961

Topics

ChangeThinkCountryVeteransWhy

I am very conscious that, having worked part time, having had a rather disrupted career, my research record is a good deal patchier than any man's of a comparable age.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

GoodAgeTimeManI AmResearch

I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind.

John Edwards

LiveMindAmericaYouLostVote

Let's learn to consume the least amount of energy possible.

Mauricio Macri

EnergyLearnPossibleConsumeLeast

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

Matthew Sweet

CulturePeopleMePlayGoJapan

From Lady Carlisle's trip to Moscow in 1663 to Veronica Atkinson's tour of duty during the 1989 Romanian revolution, it is clear that very little has changed. Four hundred years of innovation, liberation, and improvement clearly bypassed the Foreign Office while making its rounds through Westminster.

Amanda Foreman

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I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without Men.' I also write essays about visual art.

Siri Hustvedt

ArtMenSummerWriteWithoutWell

Right after the game, say as little as possible.

Tom Landry

GameSayPossibleRightLittle

When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It's really about being open to how the river is flowing and trying to get on the river.

Mike Mills

RiverMovingTryingDirectorOpen

I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.

Donovan Bailey

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For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.

Chelsea Clinton

KnowYoungNowServingSeemsSense

Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.

Brian Ferneyhough

LawResultFurtherThanApplyTaken

I'm one of the luckiest people in the world that I was able to do what I fell in love with and be able to make a living doing it.

Scott Weiland

LovePeopleWorldDoingLivingAble

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