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Katherine Boo Quotes

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 12, 1964

Topics

Corruption Down Country More Break

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

Car Thought Write First Real Always

The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe.

John Henrik Clarke

People World Face Early Place Earth

If you have a workforce that enjoys each other, they trust each other, they trust management, they're proud of where they work - then they're going to deliver a good product.

Work Good Trust Management Proud

A lot of times, people assume that I write all the songs: that I arrange them and I stick Kevin up there as kind of a puppet or something. It's absolutely not that way. In fact, he writes probably 60 percent of the songs, and I write probably 40 percent.

People Kind Way Write Up Something

You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.

Time Doing You Same Social Show

Different strokes, for different folks.

Different Strokes Folks

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

Mother Parents Friends Cozy Always

Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot.

Robert Dale Owen

Future Peace Slavery Forward Look

Two Klansmen were working for NORAD monitoring U.S. air space for missile attacks. I contacted the Pentagon, and the next day, they were reassigned to a posting near the North Pole.

Day Space Two Air Next Working

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

Change Fear New York City Enough

I don't like to go to premieres or openings. I don't like to have to put on makeup.

Rosie O'Donnell

Makeup Go Like Put Openings

I always felt that I had a mission in life. I thought I was born to play sports. Even now, I still feel that must have been my mission because I came through so many close calls where my life could very easily have been ended.

Life Sports Thought My Life Mission

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