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Hakeem Jeffries Quotes

My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.

Hakeem Jeffries

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 4, 1970

Topics

Job Opportunities Push Congress Some

I always look for... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything.

Joe Carnahan

Great Challenge Looking Enough Look

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

John Candy

Mirror You Look Eat Begins Who

I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.

Matt Drudge

Family Powerful Go Connected Right

Sustainability is a part of our 'rise' philosophy. You cannot rise if you take more from the community than you put back.

Anand Mahindra

Community Philosophy You Back Rise

I could always hit. I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.

Stan Musial

Always Ball Get Bat Hit Learned

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.

Steve Toltz

Funny Optimism You Person Pessimism

The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels.

Tom Sturridge

Empathy People Feel First Head Word

I grew up in a neighborhood that had a lot of things to offer, good and bad.

Romeo Santos

Good Bad Good And Bad Up Things Had

I am, if nothing else, an optimist.

Mike Barnicle

I Am Nothing Optimist Else Am

I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life.

Minka Kelly

Life Honesty Think Feelings Afraid

I can only speak for myself, but you never set out to be funny. You just set out to play the scenes real, and hopefully the funny comes.

Jason Jones

Funny Myself Speak You I Can Play

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

Jonathan Kozol

Education Literature Paris Harvard