"We often have an exaggerated sense of what……" — Katherine Boo
"We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves."
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17 Quotes by Katherine Boo
Katherine Boo has 17 quotes on this site.
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People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and…
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But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as…
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My job is to lay it out clearly, not to give my policy prescriptions.Very little journalism is world changing. But…
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Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make…
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A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught
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In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.
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Don't correct me, you don't have any rights over me." "What kind of life is this? So I sit at…
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Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school…
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I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts…
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...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.
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It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did…
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.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.
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Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
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There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated…
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This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An…
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When in comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises…
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The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and…
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Our expectation of the gratitude of others for what we've done for them is sometimes exaggerated because of our deep…
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Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses…
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An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so…
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I know I exaggerated things, now I got it like that. Tuck my napkin in my shirt cause I'm just…
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The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such…
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My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not…
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