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Danny K. Davis Quotes

Many of the young people living in inner-city America don't see themselves - I mean, they even talk about things like death and dying. And there's a tremendous loss of hope. And of all the things to lose, I think nothing is worse or more difficult to overcome than the loss of hope.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 6, 1941

Topics

Hope Death People Think Loss Lose

If you know a lot about something and apply that information to a vote that matches your policy preferences, your opinion quality is high.

Quality Opinion You Information Know

I'd like to direct something at the Public.

Something Like Direct Public

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

Poetry Important Little Translation

I'm a Taurus, you know. A bull. I belong in a field.

You Know Bull Belong Field

At home, I never plate. Things go in the middle of the table, and you serve yourself. In the restaurant, every day I plate things, but at home, I want to enjoy my company.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Home Day Yourself Restaurant Enjoy

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.

Live Reflection People Me Trying

I have little children, 5 1/2 and 1 1/2, and I thought I should document my life, because by the time they're in the mid-20s, they'll be able to say, 'This is what he did.'

Life Children Time Thought My Life

I hate to say it, but, yeah, I'm a tobacco junkie.

Hate Say Tobacco Yeah

The striking thing about love and will in our day is that, whereas in the past they were always held up to us as the answer to life's predicaments, they have now themselves become the problem.

Life Love Day Past Problem Become

At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians.

Luis Walter Alvarez

Tradition Long Cooperation Laboratory

Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires.

Gun Better Back Hand Shoulder Stick

Growing up where I grew up, we looked to athletes. They were our first heroes. They came from the same places we came from. I mean, you can't watch TV and see someone who is successful that you can really relate to. That person isn't real; he doesn't exist. But athletes traveled the world, had these big houses and gave their families a better life.

Life Growing Up World Better Someone

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