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Sal Albanese Quotes

It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.

Sal Albanese

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 29, 1949

Topics

Family Change Opportunity Day People

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.

Jimmy Carter

Farmer You Know President First Who

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

John Abercrombie

Time Together Perfection Musicians

Puerto Ricans, it doesn't matter where they live, it doesn't matter how long it's been since they visited the island, their hearts are there. If you keep them informed, and if you say to them, 'This is important for Puerto Rico, go and call your congressman,' they do it. They do it.

Anibal Acevedo Vila

Live Long You Puerto Rico Important

It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.

Michael Gartner

Good Great Price Economy High Going

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

Tom Wolfe

God Journalism New Kind Up Forever

I think Yahoo has been doing so many things well for so long and, frankly, got a little trapped in, I think, 'Oh, what is Yahoo?'

Ross Levinsohn

Think Doing Long Trapped Little Got

I always saw law as a performance, just like being on a stage.

Lukas Forchhammer

Law Performance Always Stage Saw

We're dancing from here, from inside, not from outside. You could look at anybody throwing their leg and kick their leg up and a million pirouettes and do all kinds of tricks and stuff like that. But that's not what dance is really about.

Judith Jamison

Dance You Look Inside Outside Up

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

Jon Porter

Work College Law Medicine Debt

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

Denzel Washington

Good Opportunity Black You White

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

Donna Tartt

Life Vision Romantic Ugly Know Hard

They say behind every great man is a great woman, but I think it works the other way round as well.

Debra Stephenson

Great Woman Man Think Great Man Say