Harold Washington Quotes
Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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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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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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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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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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I think Hitchcock had a thing about hills: think of the house on the hill in 'Psycho.' Then, in 'Vertigo,' Scottie is forever traversing the city, going downhill all the time as he goes deeper and deeper into himself. It's as if Hitchcock is using San Francisco as a psychological map.
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All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.
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I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.
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The 1963 Corvair, which has some remarkable characteristics. It's one of the few cars I know that can do the bossa nova on dry pavement and the watusi on wet.
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F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists - and outright racists - who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
