"There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty."

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Source : "Ray LaMontagne: Digging Deep And Doing What He Does" by Ellen Sterling, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2010.

Ray LaMontagne

#Growing Up Quotes #Real Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.”
“Writing is an adventure.”
“You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.”
“One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.”

Source : George Jean Nathan (1972). “The Critic and the Drama”, p.55, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
“My mother's influence to take on new challenges and do what I though was right even though sometimes the consequences politically speaking were not good. My mother was vivacious, she was full of life, she got up every morning looking forward to the day, trying to figure out what she could do that was innovative and unprecedented and maybe controversial.”
“Working with the UN's diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars. When conflicts do break out, UN peacekeepers should play a role in defusing and settling them. Without giving up our sovereignty, we can help the UN with better training and better command and control in order to develop more effective peacekeeping forces.”
“If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.”

Source : "Funding above and beyond scientific research". EMBO reports Interview, embor.embopress.org. September 2001.
“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”

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