Francis G. Slay Quotes
I plan to see St. Louis as a global competitor. As an international trade hub, as an incubator of new companies, as a place of culture and the arts, as a magnet for immigrants, for entrepreneurs, for animal lovers, and for gays, as a city of parks and trails, and as the sort of place that figures in young people's dreams.
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Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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When it gets down to it you just have to act.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian.
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There's a crazy energy in Toronto. I think some of that may be from being a border from where I'm from and being so close.
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I plan to see St. Louis as a global competitor. As an international trade hub, as an incubator of new companies, as a place of culture and the arts, as a magnet for immigrants, for entrepreneurs, for animal lovers, and for gays, as a city of parks and trails, and as the sort of place that figures in young people's dreams.
