Saul Alinsky (Saul David Alinsky) Quotes
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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I live to eat – when someone else cooks for me.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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Some of the authorities would like to remove rhythmic gymnastics from the list of Olympic sports and turn it into art. I think this would be wrong, as rhythmic gymnastics is a true sport - we train around six hours per day and sometimes spend entire days in the gym.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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My enemy said to me, 'Love your enemy.' And I obeyed him and loved myself.
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I had a hell of a lot of will power! A hell of a will power, you understand? And it was very useful to me.
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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
