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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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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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 love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me - that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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My mother - it's not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things - she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.
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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.
