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Thomas Menino Quotes

The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 27, 1942 - October 30, 2014

Topics

Opportunity Neighbor True Privilege

I do everything with a purpose, and I don't really pay attention to the negativity.

Jermaine Fowler

Purpose Negativity Attention Pay

I want everything to be an honest extension of me. What better way than me talking? It's a direct connection with everyone. With film and television, you make great projects, but stand-up is the thing that is completely yours.

Jerrod Carmichael

Great Me Better Talking You Want

I've always had volume on my side: the big-voice-in-a-small-package thing. I surprise people.

People Surprise Always Side Volume

George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.

Jeff Greenfield

House White Washington White House

No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.

Amanda Righetti

Love Run Horror First See Genre

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

Myself Curiosity Born Desire Mastery

In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the people who listen. This does not mean the French are not interested in language. On the contrary. It actually says more about the undeveloped visual sense over here.

People Theatre Language Listen Mean

I am never worried that I'm not gonna get my work done. I was the kid who got straight As and was a little too intense in school. Like, I am a perfectionist, and I am going to sit at the front of the class with my hand raised.

Work School I Am Done Class Hand

One day before I die, I will finally understand why liberals, especially Jewish liberals, fail to fully support Israel in its right to survive terror attacks.

Day Support Survive Die Understand

If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.

Compassion Childhood Parents People

It's flattering if people think I'm attractive. If it helps, great, but it's not going to get in the way of me wanting to win. That's what I'm all about.

Great People Me Win Think Way

Joe Scarborough was one of 74 Republicans elected to the Congress in 1994 in response to the missteps of the early Clinton era. He was the first Republican elected to Congress from his northern Florida district since the 1870s and handily won re-election three times.

Christopher Buckley

Early Congress Three First Florida

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