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Vernon Jordan Quotes

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: August 15, 1935

Topics

Job Chicago Authority Bus Driver

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'

Work Hard Work Ideas Brain Saying

I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.

Man Me Gay Party Nice Out

I voted against Donald Trump for every American who looks and sounds like me. Because we love this country. We are proud of this country. We stand as equals in the United States of America.

Love Me Proud Stand American Looks

I was offered the opportunity to narrate the Catholic bible, and it was something I really wanted to be involved with.

John Rhys-Davies

Opportunity Bible Involved Something

Sting and I have six kids between us. A lot of members of our family have ADHD and dyslexia.

Family Us Kids Six Between Our

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

Good Children Parenting World Think

I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people.

Work Business Vision People View

What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to schools, and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods and services, but government must be accountable for whether or not they are delivered to citizens.

Government People Medicine Help May

I don't look to celebrities for style anymore because I've learned the chain of command. They are being dressed by a stylist who's getting inspiration from a 16-year-old kid running the streets of Melbourne, Australia. Once I learned that chain of command, I just started taking it to the streets.

Style Look Dressed Australia Kid

I guess I look so straight and normal, nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall.

Me Fall Look Nobody Normal Nose

If you're really looking to hurt somebody's feelings, just break up with them.

Chelsea Handler

Looking Hurt You Feelings Up Break

Technology has brought us further than man could ever imagine, and it makes all information available. But it might not do the same exact thing that one human being asking another human being might do.

Technology Man Information Us Asking

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