Eric Adams Quotes
We should never as a city attempt to put profit over public safety. Public safety must be at the top of the list of those services that should be the last to be cut.
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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
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Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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I know what poverty is.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
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Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures.
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Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.
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I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
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I love flying.
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Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead:-The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.
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Sometimes I leave mayonnaise on the ends of my hair for a few hours while I'm writing; it's a really good moisturizer.
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White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias.
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When I moved to New York, I started switching fragrances. Between different seasons I would change fragrance, or if I was going out for a big fancy night versus going out in the daytime. But I also found that I was changing and growing so much.
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At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they require them but deride them with cynicism and scepticism when they see others helping and being helped.
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We should never as a city attempt to put profit over public safety. Public safety must be at the top of the list of those services that should be the last to be cut.
