Ed Koch Quotes
I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.
Quotes to Explore
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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I'm not going to whine or get depressed. Who's going to feel sorry for me? Nobody.
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I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it.
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The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.
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Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.
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I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.
