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 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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The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.
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I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I believe that anyone can become better, if you put in the effort.
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I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.
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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.
