John Catsimatidis Quotes
There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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I'm willing to sit down with anybody and have constructive criticism.
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My books are not about different components that fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, it's about creating the space around the components, which is almost as important as the components themselves. And that space changes and blends depending upon what the components are.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.
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Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
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There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.
