Chuck Schumer Quotes

My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.

Chuck Schumer

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FamilyLoveFatherSmallWhySmell

It's interesting - a lot of what you accomplish in your lifetime either as an individual or as a company is determined by other people. I mean, you can do interview after interview and defend a point of view, but more often than not, the collective kind of opinion will be the one viewed historically and taken as gospel.

Jim Lee

PeopleOpinionViewInterestingYou

I'm a matter-of-fact, office-hours writer.

Jim Crace

Writer

When people didn't really know who I was, and I would get on stage, they would be distracted by what I looked like, so I would have to dumb myself down, in a way, for people to feel safe to laugh.

Anjelah Johnson

MyselfPeopleFeelLaughDownDumb

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

Rory Bremner

StruggleIdentityFindPartyCards

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Luc de Clapiers

PromisesGivingLittleAvoidMuch

I've definitely had the experience where I was pursuing someone for a long time that I just obviously did not connect with, so I was always, kind of altering myself for her, But then you realize it's just not worth it. What's the point?

Logan Lerman

TimeMyselfExperienceSomeoneYou

If you are a creative person, then your mind gets sharper with age. My mind is very sharp, and I am happy for that.

Dev Anand

AgeCreativeI AmHappyMindYou

Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'

Colm Toibin

TimeWritingSomeoneYouReadyPlay

From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto.

Brownie McGhee

TimeMeFirstUpNaturalStarted

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

Arthur Ashe

EducationLoveWomenPowerRespect

I thought I was half white or something because I only know white people as Ferguson as their last name.

ASAP Ferg

PeopleThoughtNameWhiteKnowHalf

I can remember, as a child, the happy days of us all piling into the car and going to the drive-in. And that was a weekly routine for my father. He was a proud black man, and that all sort of vanished as America began to export jobs.

Susan Burton

FatherCarManHappyChildProud

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