Bill de Blasio Quotes
I think you can be smart and directed and focused, without being obnoxious, and get plenty done.
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
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Bling is good.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.
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I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.
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I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
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Have you ever visited that portion of Erin's plot that offers its sympathetic soil for the minute survey and scrutinous examination of those in political power, whose decision has wisely been the means before now of converting the stern and prejudiced, and reaching the hand of slight aid to share its strength in augmenting its agricultural richness?
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I think you can be smart and directed and focused, without being obnoxious, and get plenty done.
