#time

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life. ↗

— John Pomfret

#american life #bosnian #chinese #experience #korean

I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis. ↗

— John Pomfret

#china #city #front #grew #i

I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China. ↗

— John Pomfret

#china #ever #greatest #i #i think

My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd. ↗

— John Pomfret

#bicycle #bicycles #could #crowd #form

The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me. ↗

— John Pomfret

#came #different #doing #down #factions

Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#agenda #changes #crisis #franklin #franklin roosevelt

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#any #anymore #change #come #get

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#bad #destroy #feel #get #great

In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects. ↗

— John Pople

#armed #armed forces #attend #before #forces

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt. ↗

— Gail Porter

#feeding #felt #i #inadequate #miserable