Katherine Boo Quotes

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?

Katherine Boo

Recitation: by Male by Female

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GoodMyselfPeopleSufferingMe

My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.

Jeremy Irons

FatherMotherHomeMoreHardLeave

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

Andrew Wyeth

SearchFeelingAliveWantRealSee

I worked in a Starbucks that wasn't very popular - before the big coffee boom in London. My boss didn't take kindly to my incessant sitting. I was like, 'Look, I've dusted everything, the stockroom is all figured out... I would rather sit now so I have the energy when a customer does come in.'

Andrew Garfield

CoffeeBossEnergyCustomerLook

You know the Middle East is going crazy when Lebanon is the most peaceful place in the region.

Maz Jobrani

CrazyYouPeacefulPlaceKnowGoing

Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter.

Mel Gibson

LiveGreatFlyingLearnInteresting

I don't care what people say about me.

Roger Daltrey

PeopleMeCareSayPeople SayAbout

A gift shouldn't feel like homework.

Robin Sloan

GiftHomeworkFeelLike

The pilot is a sales tool; it introduces you to the characters and might set the template for what the show is meant to be, but there's so many boxes you have to check off on a pilot that it can sort of hurt the storytelling in a way.

Michael Spiller

HurtYouMeant To BeStorytelling

I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all the leg exercises. I know they help me, and I'm able to move around and don't have knee problems, and my hip doesn't hurt anymore, but when my trainer tells me I have to do them, I almost feel like my body goes into convulsions.

Michael Strahan

HateMeProblemsHurtHelpBody

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

Christian Slater

DoingCriticEyebrowsCutMoveOff

The thing that 'Neuromancer' predicts as being actually like the Internet isn't actually like the Internet at all!

William Gibson

InternetBeingLikeActuallyThing

Those who have the most power - whether famous TV anchors, rich Hollywood moguls, judges, Members of Congress, or the president of the United States - must decide how to exert that power: for corruption or for good.

Pramila Jayapal

GoodPowerRichFamousCorruption

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