Christine Quinn Quotes
I've already begun to put pilot programs in place that give CUNY grads opportunities to get good tech jobs. We should expand on that so that New Yorkers are getting those jobs, because those jobs are probably one of the biggest 21st Century pathways into the middle class.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.
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It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
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My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.
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When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
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I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'
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You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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Science is our last and greatest frontier.
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Projects can take years to exhibit proof-of-concept and a few more years to be converted into commercial realities.
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I've already begun to put pilot programs in place that give CUNY grads opportunities to get good tech jobs. We should expand on that so that New Yorkers are getting those jobs, because those jobs are probably one of the biggest 21st Century pathways into the middle class.
