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In Texas, if your name is Carlos, you're a Mexican. In Florida, you're a Cuban. In New York, you're a Puerto Rican. And I come here and I find out I'm an Eskimo. Carlos Mencia
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I was born in Honduras, that's where I was born. I live in California, where no matter what you say, you're Mexican. You understand that? It doesn't matter what you say. See - you don't understand that, white people, because wherever you go, you're white. You're here, you're white. You go to L. A., you're white. You go to Denver, you're white. You go to Miami, you're still white. In L. A. I'm a Mexican, In Florida, I'm a Cuban. In New York, I'm a Puerto Rican. And when I come to Canada and I find out I'm an Eskimo.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks. Carl Bernstein
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New York is dead. It's too expensive. Carl Andre
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When I came to New York, it was cheap!
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant--one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care. Agnes Smedley
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them. Aaron Yoo
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I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY. Aaron Tveit
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it! Aasif Mandvi
self-confidence world conquer
The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour. Charles Dickens
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I had a lot of self-confidence. Bowie Kuhn
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Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field. Brian Tracy
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A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
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Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably.
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Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your highest values.
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The single largest frustration in the massage field is the waste of resources and training resulting from high attrition among those who start practicing massage therapy. While some affected individuals may have made an ill-suited vocational choice and others underestimated the profession's physical demands, most appear to stumble in assembling the self-confidence and persistent salesmanship necessary to develop a professional practice Bob Benson
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Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence . Charles Spurgeon
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Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics. Ai Weiwei
cities citizens forget
The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel. Carlos Fuentes
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We have no direct interest in those cities and don't have a strategic plan to include them, but that doesn't mean we won't in the future.
cities community quality
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world. Agnes Repplier
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Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.
cities mind vision
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
cities mind moral
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals. Charles Caleb Colton
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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences. Charles Stanley
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We have requested the ministry to recruit more women for the force so that all stations in the big cities can have at least one lady officer.