Jane Byrne Quotes
Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
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Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.
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The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.
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That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.
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The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
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How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
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I moved out to Los Angeles a fan of many people, and meeting people I put on a pedestal that just disappointed me. Without fans, this business would not exist, so I try and say that we're all on the same level.
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The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it.
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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
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People are getting picked up off the street and getting a show, and it's because we're not using the people that are trying to be entertainers - use more of them.
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I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.
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When I saw him, he was at the door, but it did not matter, he was already sliding along the wall of the night, losing himself in some crack of the ruins. That it should have been he who said, 'The kingfishers! who cares for their feathers now?' His last words had been, 'The pool is slime.'
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Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
