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Richard J. Daley Quotes

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

Richard J. Daley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 15, 1902 - December 20, 1976

Topics

Job Society Problems Attention Radio

But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.

Support Survive Foundation Someone

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

God Thankful Sky Thank God You Late

You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.

Culture You Rules Born Stop More

So now what happens is the cameras follow me around and capture exactly what I've been doing since I was a boy. Only now we have a team of, you know, like 73 of us, and it's gone beyond that.

Me Team Doing You Know Capture

The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck.

Freedom Best Rich You Want Whatever

I don't have my own garden; we're on shale and in the woods. And if I did have a garden, the deer and chipmunks and squirrels and bears would eat everything anyway.

Woods Garden My Own Deer Eat Own

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

Competition Losing Better Kid Idea

Eating has to be fun.

I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights act re-enacted. I have been a strong supporter of affirmative action. I believe in it strongly.

Fight Action Believe Strong Voting

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

Delmore Schwartz

Look Like Rotten Poets Them Wives

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

Truth People Sister Think Thinking

Hip-hop basically controls the world through fashion, through music, through language, through culture. It's basically running the world, no matter what anyone wants to think, and that's just the way it is.

Music Culture World Fashion Think

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