Christine Quinn Quotes
I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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When I'm at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu - just around L.A. there's a lot of different spots.
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It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
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Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
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The low-ceiling price bazaar for sexual relief was a street called Middie Alley. You could barely get a pushcart through this avenue. Top price-twenty-five cents.
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I am the only consistent person in my life and so I better like myself, and I better love myself. And I really better know that I'm as beautiful as anyone else.
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.
