Fiorello LaGuardia Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
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On a scale of one to ten, I'm probably a six when it comes to flirting. I'm quite shy.
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I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.
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There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
