Harold Washington Quotes
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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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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Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them - the one, in fact, which is not a mask.
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Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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You cannot heal what you cannot feel
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
