"Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime."

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Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

George Pelecanos

#School Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“When did the cell phone become a license to be rude? And why must I be subjected to your personal conversations?”
“Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again... Closed in the darkness, it was necessary to bring us the light; captives, we awaited a Savior... Are these things minor or insignificant? Did they not move God to descend to human nature and visit it, since humanity was in so miserable and unhappy a state?”
“But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.”
“I was in the New Zealand army for like four years, the exact period of when it was on the air, so I never saw it.”
“Have you tried neuroxing papers? It.'s a very easy and cheap process. You hold the page in front of your eyes and you let it go through there into the brain. It's much better than xeroxing.”
“Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith.”
“A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.”
“Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.”

Source : Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee (2016). “Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century”, p.33, Ballantine Books

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