Walter Dean Myers Quotes

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.

Walter Dean Myers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 12, 1937 - July 1, 2014

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PeopleSocietyYouGoKnowNow

It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.

Jim Bakker

GodSpiritualBibleGiftTelevision

My husband always smells good to me.

Jessica Capshaw

GoodMeHusbandAlwaysSmells

What was once a fringe idea - finding a way to use the record levels of overseas capital to finance new projects in the United States - is now mainstream. The support is there; we just have to work out the details.

John Delaney

WorkFinanceSupportDetailsFinding

I wasn't inspired by lunatic asylums or anything like that.

Matthew Williamson

InspiredAnythingLikeLunatic

The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new infrastructure - which we've done.

John Perkins

NewDoneBuildHireInterestWould

Mandatory arbitration clauses I think, more often than not, work to the detriment of working people.

Tom Perez

WorkPeopleThinkMoreWorkingThan

I am an artist and a political being as well.

Robin Morgan

I AmPoliticalArtistBeingWellAm

Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.

Ruth Ozeki

TruthThinkThinkingTelevisionSee

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

Rohinton Mistry

ChildrenChildDetailsImportant

What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.

Mike Ditka

LifePastSpiritualControlFlyYou

Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.

Luke Harding

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I've never been good at playing live in front of people.

Lou Barlow

GoodLivePeopleNeverPlayingBeen

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