Harold Washington Quotes

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

Harold Washington

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• Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Imagination
  • Enemy
  • Politics

• 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.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Politics
  • Generation

• I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Together
  • Church

• How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Important
  • Long
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Think
  • English

• 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.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • War
  • Want

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Talk

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Training
  • Police
  • Soldiers

• No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Work
  • Down
  • Upside Down

• 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.'

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Star

• 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.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Fight
  • Possible

• I need my fill of Indian home cooking.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Home
  • Need
  • Cooking

• I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

  

  Pat Cash
  • You
  • Tennis
  • McDonald

• 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.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Nature
  • Future

• Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • Learn

• It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Room
  • Odd
  • Sharing

• Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

  

  Euripides
  • Good
  • Love
  • Man

• Men are much more agressive with their advances.

  

  Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
  • Men

• If I feel really ugly or unhappy, sometimes I'll choose bright colors so they'll make me feel good. Yellows, pinks, light blues and orange. I just want to feel good all the time if I can. And colors and hairstyles and all that kind of helps out.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• From 1911 to 1928, the country was officially called Republic of China, but in reality, it was actually split between different warlords. It was one of the liveliest periods in Chinese history. It is therefore quite theatrical, and it is good for making films.

  

  Jiang Wen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Country

• Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

  

  Harold Washington
  • People
  • Good
  • Work