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 always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
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When I need God most, He comes
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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Yes, I'm known as the most technical fighter in the world, and I'm going to keep that as my brand.
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The older you are when you buy an annuity, the shorter your life expectancy will be - so the greater a monthly paycheck the same sum of money will buy you. When interest rates are higher, the size of the paycheck for the same sum of money will rise also.
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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.
