Chris Christie Quotes

Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.

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• Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

  

  Nancy Roman
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• I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
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  • Taken

• If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.

  

  Zach LaVine
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  • Myself

• I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

  

  Paige VanZant
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  • Up

• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Change
  • Challenge

• I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Work
  • Me

• Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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  • Meat
  • Eggs

• We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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  • Live

• Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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• People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.

  

  Parker Posey
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  • Credit

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Music
  • Something

• I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.

  

  Tasha Smith
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  • Help
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• So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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• When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.

  

  Jack Dorsey
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• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Democracy

• The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park.' Then the Faces just had 'Stay with Me.' So both bands could be considered one-hit wonders in America, even though we had several huge hits in England.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • America
  • Small
  • Wonder

• New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • People
  • City
  • New York

• I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it's hard to imagine that happening if they don't have some control over their attention.

  

  Angela Duckworth
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• This kind of game in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, that somehow their ideas could be attributed to me, I think the American people are smarter than that. They're not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn't.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Game

• It wasn't as if I was simply some guy who had never seen the other side of the tracks.

  

  Chevy Chase
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• Acting on conscience and principle in a manner - is the manner - in which we express our moral selves and as such, loyalty to conscience and principle should supersede loyalty to any man or party.

  

  Jeff Flake
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  • Moral
  • Loyalty

• Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.

  

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