Bill de Blasio Quotes
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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I don't want any yes – men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
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My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
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The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter.
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I would hate to be on a plane every day.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
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A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.
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Then I turned round and saw the British Union Jack under which I had been sitting and it was then that I realised that my poor country, India, did not even have a flag of her own - and it was this that triggered off my complete breakdown.
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I'm very proud of New Order and Joy Division, that heritage of songs.
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I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
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Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.
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Until thirty, a woman prefers slightly older guys; afterward, she likes them slightly younger.
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Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than in houses, stocks and gold. The higher rates climb, the happier they are to invest. So if austerity plans drive rates up, it's music to Italian ears.
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I knew I would always be an artist, but when you move to Nashville, this is a writer's town. I moved here to focus on that and started pitching demos and immediately was asked to be an artist.
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I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.
