Deval Patrick Quotes

I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door. One of the the great things about not being in politics as a career is that I can do this job without thinking about my career. I can think about what we're trying to do, what we're trying to accomplish and what we're trying to leave.

Deval Patrick

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GreatPoliticsJobDoorThinking

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

MusicArtFinancialDifficultiesUs

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

Andrew Bird

SongAppreciatePlayJazzWithin

My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.

Stephen Mangan

FamilyChildhoodSurroundedClose

A writer's life suits me. It's fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that's fine because I feel that my imagination is enough to kind of keep me happy.

Ronald Frame

LifeImaginationHappyPeopleMe

When you're not experiencing your food, that's when it's harder to pay attention to when you're full, and that's what being satisfied really means.

Mary Helen Bowers

FoodAttentionYouPay AttentionPay

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

Mike Rutherford

PetMovingFeelYouInformationNow

When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families didn't stay. Once you had a second kid, you immediately left, so the kids could run around outside.

Mike D

FamilyNew YorkGrowing UpYouBack

By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.

Michel Onfray

HopeJoyBabyPresentLoseEarth

You know how there's always the one girl in drama school who can cry at the drop of a hat? She has that emotional well she can tap into in a second? I'm not that girl. It takes a lot to get me to that place.

Condola Rashad

GirlSchoolHatMeYouDrama

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

Bob Nelson

BestFireEffortBuildingYouGet

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

Antoine Rivarol

GoodYouBadSayWayTalk

Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.

Anne-Marie Duff

SuccessControlTryingNothingMore

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