Amanda Foreman Quotes

The energy that New York exudes is as much the light of extinguished souls as it is the spark of individual enterprise. And while the full meaning of the city may prove elusive, all New Yorkers are painfully aware that it remains an intractable mass of contradictions. It is not just the extremes of wealth and poverty living side by side.

Amanda Foreman

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LightNew YorkCityEnergySpark

What was unique about me being in City Hall during the Giuliani Administration, I was the only one who wasn't an attorney. I may have been the only one who didn't work in a prosecutor's office. So I took a completely different point of view on how the city should be run. Very close to a business, very close on metrics and numbers.

Joe Lhota

WorkBusinessCityMeViewUnique

I'm an un-healable positive optimist.

Andre Rieu

PositiveOptimist

I still love Birkenstocks. I just think they are the most comfortable things; I even wear them in winter sometimes.

John Rocha

LoveWinterThinkSometimesWear

We all have skills, I guess.

Simone Biles

SkillsGuess

This is an unprecedented pace of terror in modern times. And so, to say they're on the run absolutely defies reality.

Michael McCaul

RealitySayRunModernPaceTerror

I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.

Lucy Dacus

CommunicationWordsWritingAlways

I like helping children. I have a big thing with children. You can correspond with the child, send something to them as a gift. You know it's actually getting there and you are doing something to help.

Lisa Marie Presley

ChildrenChildGiftDoingHelpYou

Man was made to be immortal; else, he could not survive being the fool he is.

Douglas Southall Freeman

FoolManSurviveBeingMadeHe

When we think of misdirection, we think of something as looking off to the side when, actually, the things right in front of us are often the hardest to see: the things that you look at every day that you're blinded to.

Apollo Robbins

DayLookingThinkYouLookSee

President Obama came into office in '08 with the belief that - and the public's belief in him - that he was moderate, that he wasn't a big spender.

William M. Daley

BeliefPresidentOfficeHimBigHe

I'm looking forward to getting fat and old.

Richard C. Armitage

Looking ForwardLookingForwardFat

I love to play in the different keys like B or F sharp, or keys that most people don't play in, because they have a better resonance or something. I'm really not fond of F and C. I just stay away from those if I can.

Marian McPartland

LovePeopleBetterI CanPlaySharp

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