John Catsimatidis Quotes
New York is for everybody; it's for the poor, it's for the middle-class, it's for the wealthy. We can't punish any one group and chase them away.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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Valet parking is an essential at any decent club.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.
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All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.
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It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.
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I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.
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Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
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If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.
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You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.
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My sister is my sister regardless - has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. This is a love quite distinct from that of a lover, with whom we fall in love, in part, because they are free and have a choice.
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I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.
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McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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Lands for the purposes of pleasure and magnificence, parks, gardens, public walks, &c. possessions which are every where considered as causes of expence, not as sources of revenue, seem to be the only lands which, in a great and civilized monarchy, ought to belong the crown.
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I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.
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I used to take a lot of pride into what went into practice.
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We're not advertisement-driven, so we don't need personal databases.
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New York is for everybody; it's for the poor, it's for the middle-class, it's for the wealthy. We can't punish any one group and chase them away.
