Jane Byrne Quotes
But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.
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My father was a lawyer.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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I've never been a calm, midrange type person.
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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.
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I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was eight years older who was like a second mother, and my mother had two sisters. In the environment I grew up in, I heard a lot of female perspectives.
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A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone special; you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.
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But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.
