Katherine Boo Quotes

I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting.

Katherine Boo

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Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

John Nelson Darby

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In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since.

Anita Hill

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I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

Andy Richter

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Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.

Amanda Pays

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What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter's pellucid first novel, 'The Apartment,' it may be simply the length of a day - but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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I just love the Corps. I love the brotherhood, the camaraderie. I thank anyone in uniform who serves their fellow man. I love this country for so many reasons. We have such a great country here, and it's worth defending, and it's worth sacrificing for.

Rob Riggle

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I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

Joshua Leonard

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I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

Diane Kruger

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There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.

Christian Bale

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I don't watch what I eat, because the concept seems exhausting to me.

Christina Tosi

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Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.

Anthony Foxx

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To me, when something's really funny, there's, like, a wildness to it, and it's very close to the wildness of something potentially tragic or gross. It's all very close to each other when you have that extreme level of feeling.

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