David Dinkins Quotes
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
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For years I've been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Rick James T-shirts. We don't have any icons or idols to look up to, just rappers and professional athletes.
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This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.
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Business is all about the customer: what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and is delivered with amazing customer service.
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There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
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I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.
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The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.
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As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
