Christine Quinn Quotes
Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
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When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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I'm a bit of a Libertarian.
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I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
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Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.
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People tend to think that I know less about what I'm talking about than I actually do - usually people who think that all aristocrats are stupid.
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The working standards on television in our country are really bad. The sad part is that many actors take this deal because it gets them money and recognition.
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Everything I've done until 'The Jeffersons' - the plays, the movies, the soap operas - were all in New York.
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I've heard of people stopping their cars, having car wrecks, all kinds of things. But most of the banjo players I know had that moment when they heard Earl Scruggs. So, for me, it transcends the technique. It's the musician in him and his personality, his musical personality, such great taste, such great technique, very, very creative.
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Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes.
