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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If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.
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You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.
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I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.
