Boss Tweed Quotes
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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You have to open up on stage.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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After a vast research program, which depended very heavily upon the use of a number of highspeed computers, I am pleased to offer you the result: 'Space is that in which everything else is.' In other words, 'Space is the hole that we are in.'
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Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?
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I would like to live long enough to see the day when people talk about which guns are the safest.
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?
