Bill de Blasio Quotes

I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.

Bill de Blasio

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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.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Women
  • Job
  • Pretty

• 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.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Man

• I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Career
  • Education
  • First

• I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Done
  • Girl
  • Three

• 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.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Always
  • Mexico
  • Territory

• The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Health
  • Care
  • Physician

• I don't want any yes – men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Men
  • Job
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Try

• 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.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Life
  • Power
  • Death

• I would hate to be on a plane every day.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Hate
  • Day
  • Everyday

• 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.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Thinking
  • Trouble
  • Discover

• Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Learned
  • Throw

• 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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • May
  • Space
  • Brain

• 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.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Honesty

• To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Great

• A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Good
  • Words
  • Habit

• 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.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Country

• I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Good
  • Why
  • Book

• With me and Portland, it wasn't moving anywhere. I wasn't given a bigger role as I played more and more with the club. I felt I could have been utilized in a bigger way.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Moving

• Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life...

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Way
  • Internet
  • Works

• Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Success
  • Small

• Games are getting more interesting. I mean, when we talk about books, they can be anything from a summer blockbuster to 'War and Peace' - well, games are the same. I think the creative side is catching up with the technology.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • War
  • Interesting

• I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.

  

  Bill de Blasio