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Merry Clayton Quotes

My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 25, 1948

Topics

Family Father Blue Black He Part

I have respect for anyone who helps a creator put a great television show on the air.

Respect Great Television Air Creator

My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time.

Michael Clarke Duncan

Time Me Sister Say She Beat

The government ought to be in the business of delivering health, education, housing, and basic services to people without a lot of game playing. There ought to be comprehensive childcare, a comprehensive approach to housing, a sane, rational way to finance education. But I also strongly believe in the notion of fundamental individual freedom.

Education Business Freedom Health

When I was mayor of New York, my views changed. I began as mayor of New York City thinking that I could reform the New York City school system. After two or three years, four years, I became an advocate of choice, of scholarships, and vouchers, and parental choice, because I thought that was the only way to really change the school system.

Change School New York City Thinking

In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.

Change Future Politics People Action

Joe Louis was one of my closest friends.... I'm a great boxing fan. I used to go to the American Legion Stadium in Hollywood, every Friday night for 15 years. Down the aisle would come Lupe Velez, Johnny Weismuller, Mae West. All at ringside.

Great Night Friday American Friends

A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate.

Heart Government People Church Doing

The fans at Quicken Loans Arena are pretty hostile. They say nasty things.

Say They Say Pretty Fans Nasty

Don't sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.

Aristotle Onassis

Sleep Succeed Night Year You Three

I can have people around a lot more because I'm not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.

Work People I Can More Mean Always

We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.

Think Separate Oftentimes

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

World Independence You Outside Gain

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