Tom Barrett Quotes

As mayor of Milwaukee, I've had many developers come and many businesses come and have asked for financial assistance from the city, and my questions have always been: how many jobs are we talking about and are these family-supporting jobs.

Tom Barrett

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All I ever wanted to do was bit parts on Broadway. I have more than achieved any goal that I aspired to.

Joe Piscopo

GoalMoreBroadwayThanWantedEver

'The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.

Michael Gruber

BookLawyerBornShadowsAir

Your television has changed, your phone has changed. Why don't these other things you need, that the government tells you you must have in your home, change?

Tony Fadell

ChangeHomeGovernmentYouPhone

Just follow the rules. Always have a designated driver. Don't be doing anything to make someone mad. And just walk away from the trouble.

Rob Gronkowski

WalkSomeoneDoingRulesMadFollow

We always think, 'Well, for a person who's blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight is restored to them.' Now, this may be true for blind people who lost their vision at a later age. It's rarely true for people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age.

Rosemary Mahoney

AgeVisionPeopleAmazingChance

I have a wonderful wife I met at Rutgers while we were both there. She was in the Ph.D. program. She is not an actress. She definitely brings balance to my life. We actors can tend to bore anyone with shop talk.

Mike Colter

LifeWifeBalanceMy LifeTalkShe

Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.

Jonathan Haidt

TeamBlindRealityYouComplicated

People don't know about the human part of me that really cares about the world. For instance, I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.

Diana Ross

NaturePeopleMeThoughtsWorld

I have one closet that's just shoes. The woman go, 'Amen,' and the men go, 'Oh my God.' It's color-coordinated from the ceiling to the floor, from evening to casual.

Dianne Reeves

GodShoesMenWomanEveningGo

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.

Arthur C. Clarke

LifeBestDaySpaceHideOne Day

I'm willing to be an open book, to a point.

Shelly Burch

BookOpenPointWillingOpen Book

I can still steal a base anytime I get ready.

Rickey Henderson

I CanReadyGetStealStillAnytime

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