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Thomas Menino Quotes

For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Back Hill Boston Economy Up Us

This is just the United States. All the rest of the countries, all over the world, are proud of Michael. It's here we have the most trouble out of them.

World Rest Proud Trouble Over Out

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance.

Girl Time Performance Want Realize

My older brother and I read all the time. My father read, but only things related to religion. One year, he did read a set of stories that was called something like '365 Stories' out loud to us. They followed a family for the year, a page a day. They were about kids with simple problems - like a wheel coming off their bicycle.

Family Father Time Day Simple Year

A lot of Indian fathers don't know how to show affection. My parents really do love me, even though my dad has never been able to say those words to me.

Love Words Parents Me Love Me Know

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.

Grace Laugh Ability Us Ourselves

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

Worst Rule Our Governed Cities

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Myself Speak You Seem Warning Whom

I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.

Home Blessed Grow Interesting Back

I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it.

Competition Problem Trying Out Beat

You don't want to be a Kardashian.

I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives.'

Opera Days Soap Our Soap Opera

One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That's pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million.

Worth Pretty Close Million Houses

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