Angela Alioto Quotes
There's no question that I have always wanted to be mayor. I know I am strategically not supposed to be saying that, but I don't care.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.
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I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.
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Never give up, and never give in.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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To me, running is therapy. It's mood-altering and gets my endorphins going. It's also a great release and a great energy builder.
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In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. You can’t pick up a page. All the words slide off.
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What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.
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Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to fall in love with sci-fi. It was one of my first literary loves, as a matter of fact.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
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There's no question that I have always wanted to be mayor. I know I am strategically not supposed to be saying that, but I don't care.
