Joe Lhota Quotes
What was unique about me being in City Hall during the Giuliani Administration, I was the only one who wasn't an attorney. I may have been the only one who didn't work in a prosecutor's office. So I took a completely different point of view on how the city should be run. Very close to a business, very close on metrics and numbers.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.
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There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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The most exciting business ideas fit on the back of an airplane napkin.
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future.
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What was unique about me being in City Hall during the Giuliani Administration, I was the only one who wasn't an attorney. I may have been the only one who didn't work in a prosecutor's office. So I took a completely different point of view on how the city should be run. Very close to a business, very close on metrics and numbers.
