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new-york texas names
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
new-york florida california
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.
new-york years three
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
new-york expensive
New York is dead. It's too expensive. Carl Andre
new-york
When I came to New York, it was cheap!
new-york destiny hopeful
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
new-york people subway
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
new-york miles grew
I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY. Aaron Tveit
new-york thinking america
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
government people common-sense
People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience. Carol Moseley Braun
government grease corruption
No government functions without the grease of corruption. Carlos Fuentes
government broken branches
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
government safety levels
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
government sake
We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability, Ahmad Chalabi
government hurt people storm work
We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul. Laura Bush
government states united
What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability. Stephen Kinzer
government
We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.
government people together
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good. Aaron Sorkin
skills honey taste
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive. Charles Caleb Colton
skills generations novelists
We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on. Charles Stross
skills issues judgement
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement Brian Eno
skills cards world
I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon. Dave Franco
skills phones clerks
dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release. Jasmine Cresswell
skills perception taoism
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day. Alan Watts
skills age lucky
And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both. Alan Blinder
skills ideas imagination
Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas. Charlotte Bunch
skills territory needs
To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment. Eckhart Tolle