Joe Lhota Quotes
Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosophy and their approach overall, and that has been since time immemorial in New York, that people are not party-oriented in New York.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.
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All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.
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I think we create our own reality by the thoughts we have. Recovery for me has been learning how to choose my thoughts, learning how to listen to my thinking and not choose the negativity. I don't have fights with people in supermarkets anymore. I honestly thought for years that my rage was who I was, that people who didn't think the way I thought were lying to themselves.
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When I travel, it makes me wish I looked completely polished all the time. I don't. I live in sweats.
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Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosophy and their approach overall, and that has been since time immemorial in New York, that people are not party-oriented in New York.
