Linda Lingle Quotes

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.

Linda Lingle

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• I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • People
  • Money
  • Doubt

• When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Person
  • Place
  • Homeless

• I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I'm really a big fan of HBO and Showtime shows, so I wouldn't mind being on an edgy show... where I could challenge myself to do gritty stuff - a homeless guy or just some guy with a lot going on who's got problems. It's more fun to do as an actor.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Guy

• We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Power
  • Dying

• With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Work
  • Done
  • Song

• They had a hi-fi phono, boy, did they let it blast Seven hundred little records, all rock, rhythm and jazz But when the sun went down, the rapid tempo of the music fell 'C'est la vie', say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Boy

• It is true that I do not wear shoes as the host of 'Bunk.' I want 'Bunk' to feel like there's a slight possibility that a confident homeless man just wondered into the studio and started hosting a game show.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • True
  • Game
  • Shoes

• If you're a true warrior, competition doesn't scare you. It makes you better.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • True
  • Competition
  • Warrior

• I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Fear

• I've been homeless on a few occasions.

  

  Timothy Elpadaro Thedford
  • Homeless

• There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • World
  • Help
  • Control

• The narrative behind bitcoin has been dominated by bad behavior. The reality is bitcoin is filled with tons of talented developers building infrastructure.

  

  Tyler Winklevoss
  • Bad
  • Reality

• I was homeless for almost a year and a half, just living in my car or bouncing around peoples' houses, going to 7-Eleven at the end of the day and asking them for the taquitos that they were going to throw out because I hadn't eaten in two days.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Car
  • Homeless

• I think, on any given day, somebody could help out a homeless person and cuss out somebody that cut them off in traffic, and I think that everybody has that inside them: it's just how you live that balance - so I think everybody is 'Wretched and Divine.'

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Live
  • Help
  • Balance

• I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Homeless

• I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • People
  • Singing
  • Coffee

• Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.

  

  Pras Michel Fugees
  • Homeless

• I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Homeless

• Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Dog
  • Horse
  • Homeless

• I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

  

  Nora Ephron
  • Day
  • Living
  • Eat

• I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.

  

  David Zucker
  • College
  • City

• There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.

  

  Linda Lingle
  • Homeless