Jo Becker Quotes

This is how a revolution begins. It begins when someone grows tired of standing idly by, waiting for history's arc to bend toward justice, and instead decides to give it a swift shove. It begins when a black seamstress named Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in the segregated South.

Jo Becker

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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.

Lamar Alexander
- High
- Energy
- Cost
When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.

Manish Dayal
- Business
- College
- Thought
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

Wale
- Mother
- Father
- Parents
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Samuel Johnson
- Man
- Desire
- Never
I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

Rachel Kushner
- Like
- Him
- Often
I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

Vicki Lawrence
- People
- School
- America