Harold Washington Quotes
Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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It's like a battle, trying to find the right words to say at the right time.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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People think I just walk up to a sheer cliff and climb it with no knowledge of anything, when in reality, there's tons and tons of information out there, and I'm already well tapped into it.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
