Fiorello LaGuardia Quotes

Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

Fiorello LaGuardia

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• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Change

• Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • You
  • See
  • Advertising

• It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • History
  • Eyes
  • Forget

• I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Want
  • Learned
  • Lesson

• In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Career
  • Control

• I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Men
  • Like
  • Player

• Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Work
  • Business
  • Trust

• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Own

• That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • God
  • Women
  • Why

• My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Law
  • Me
  • Dad

• I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Up
  • Live
  • Free

• The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Taken
  • Serious

• I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • People
  • Me
  • Creativity

• With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • People
  • Mom
  • Moments

• Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Love
  • Back
  • Go

• I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Winning the Olympics was an amazing feeling, but afterwards, it was a bit like, 'What do I do now?' So I lost a bit of motivation going back into training and competitions; I had so much pressure on me. I kept thinking, 'I'm the Olympic champion. I can't lose' - being only 19 and having to deal with all that pressure.

  

  Jade Jones
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.

  

  Margot Kidder
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Fear

• I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good, and I think she's a good singer.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Good
  • She

• The psychology of fashion is interesting because we're selling people something they don't really need. We're just selling them something that makes them feel good. Besides, there is nothing really new in fashion. Everything worth doing has been done before.

  

  Leon Max
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • School
  • Professional
  • Old

• Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

  

  Fiorello LaGuardia
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Liberty