Wilfred Burchett Quotes
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.
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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
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In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.
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I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams.
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In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.
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In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small.
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St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.
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I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.
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New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.
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I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.
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The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.
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The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
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I kind of discovered Kolkata when I was shooting here for 'Kahaani.' I found the city fascinating.
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City Year resonated with me because when I grew up, we were poor - and an education is a way out of poverty. It's a way out of the current situation that can seem isolating and hopeless for some kids.
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Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in Chicago. It is a problem that has festered in this city for decades.
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I phoned Barkha and said, 'Are you providing the address of this 'unprotected' bazaar to the rioting mobs? Are you inviting them to come and create trouble there by announcing that there is no police here so you can run amok safely?'
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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
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I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.
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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
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I've got a tiger by the tail it's plain to seeI won't be much when you've got through with meWell I'm losing weight and I'm turning mighty paleLooks like I've got a tiger by the tail.
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The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
