'Slumdog Millionaire' is a fairy tale, but it starts in a place you really believe, and that came from spending two months… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people–people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K.… — Dev Patel Copy Share Image
Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I've always… — Catriona Gray Copy Share Image
“Look, this boy's been kicked around all his life. You know-living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. He… — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“But Buenos Aires also had poor outlying slums, called villa miserias, where hundreds of thousands of people lived in tin or cardboard… — Neal Bascomb Copy Share Image
“The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The very word "change" has changed. When I was young--and not just because I was young--we looked forward with confident impatience to… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not… — Larry Norman Copy Share Image
From Sunbelt to Rustbelt, North to South, East to West, once-thriving cities have become little more than drug-infested slums. — Gerald Celente Copy Share Image
We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time. — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it,… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering… — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
In Slumdog Millionaire when you are immersed in the point of view of children in the slum and the bustle of the… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird… — Frank N. Ikard Copy Share Image
I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason… — Otto Schily Copy Share Image
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