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Katherine Boo Quotes

When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work.

Katherine Boo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Guilty Pleasure Anything Pretty

I'd be arrested if I still smoked because I'm the one who would be changing the battery in the airplane in the lavatory to take out the smoke detector. I would've been those people they warn you against.

John Waters

People Airplane You Smoke Out Take

I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion.

Meryl Streep

Kindness Hope Best Commitment People

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

Mitch Kapor

Accomplishment End You Back See Web

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

Derek Jarman

Death I Am Dying Afraid Am

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Wole Soyinka

Truth Power Lie Control Domination

This country is bursting.

Pim Fortuyn

Pen Young Old

In addition to Richard Branson joining the board, we have attracted and commanded the greatest minds to guide us as we position ourselves for global growth. Their proven leadership in their respective industries adds another dimension in helping us achieve our dream of bringing Virgin Hyperloop One technology to the world.

Shervin Pishevar

Leadership Growth Technology World

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

Thomas Hobbes

Life Man Down Right Him Force

The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?

Richard Pryor

Earth Go Way Dead Mess See

One of the reasons it is so difficult to break a connection to something or someone you have imprinted on is that after you imprint, it seeds into your mind and goes from working memory to stored, hard-wired memory from which it is much more difficult to sever that attachment.

Mark Goulston

Memory Mind Seeds Someone You More

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

Marjane Satrapi

Women Men True Rights Students Half

I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping all legitimate authority.

Marquis de Lafayette

Authority Because Aristocracy Which