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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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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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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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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I love Dior and Commes des Garcons, but I can't really afford them.
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There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.
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The key is to somehow find a way of tackling rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and corruption - legal and illegal - and build fairer, more equal society without compromising innovation or entrepreneurship.
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It is difficult to experience moments of happiness if we are not aware of what it is we genuinely love.
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Possibly I am difficult to live with, but I don't bring my work home much. I'm either busy or not busy. And I don't work from home. I have an office here which has a white wall. No view. I did try working in a room with a view but it was too interesting. Too distracting.
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The key to ultimate succcess is the determination to progress day by day.
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This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.
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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
