Saul Alinsky (Saul David Alinsky) Quotes
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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I must confess that the original 'Pretty Woman' was terrific and a hit, but I always felt that creatively I didn't do justice to Richard Gere's character. So in the musical, we have some great new moments for Richard's character.
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I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
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God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
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Accord, n. Harmony.
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An Englishman thinks first of his work - his job, he calls it - and then of his sport, and last - a good way last - of his wife.
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I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars.
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My darling boy whom I shall never know, My son, I love you in my deepest fears...
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Someday, I'd like to create a fashionable dance shoe.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!
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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
