Residents Quotes - Page 5

• The fact that the patients were complex human beings with a rich life beyond the hospital never really sank into the consciousness of the residents. Because they had no rich lives beyond the hospital, they assumed no one else did, either. In the end, what they lacked was not medical knowledge but ordinary life experience.

  Michael Crichton

  Rich Life, Medical Knowledge, Facts

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.108, Vintage

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• Regarding local residents attempting to ban sex shops from their neighborhoods: You show me a parent who says he's worried about his child's innocence and I'll show you a homeowner trying to maintain equity.

  George Carlin

  Sex, Children, Parent

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• There are several natural phenomena which I shall have to have explained to me before I can keep on going as a resident member ofthe human race. One is the metamorphosis which hats and suits undergo exactly one week after their purchase, whereby they are changed from smart, intensely becoming articles of apparel into something children use when they want to "dress up like daddy.

  Robert Benchley

  Children, Smart, Race

  Robert Benchley (1946). “20,000 leagues under the sea: or, David Copperfield”

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• I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Two, Theatre, Auditions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

  Lena Dunham

  Political, September, Offensive

  "Downtown’s Daughter" by Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. November 15, 2010.

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• And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.

  Thomas Menino

  Birthday, Epic, Boston

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• The mayor of Newark, N.J. wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents' health. The health care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.

  Conan O'Brien

  Care, Want, Tickets

  "'Try JFK, Buddy': Conan O'Brien Joke Doesn't Fly, Gets Him Barred From Newark Airport" by Antoinette Kelly, abcnews.go.com. October 3, 2009.

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• As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.

  Boomer Esiason

  Children, Believe, Cfs

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• Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is, physically it has changed remarkably little. People's feelings about it, rather, have changed. The neighborhood shows a strange inability to update itself, enliven itself, repair itself, or to be sought after, out of choice, by a new generation. It is dead. Actually it was dead from birth, but nobody noticed this much until the corpse began to smell.

  Jane Jacobs

  Regret, Years, Smell

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• Being a resident of the city and spending most of my time in the city, I've always been perplexed with how people could say there's nothing to do and nothing going on in Detroit, and how could you raise your family in Detroit. My reality is that I hang around with some of the most interesting creative people in the world, people doing things that could only be done in Detroit.

  Brian Boyle

  Reality, Cities, People

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• In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

  Simon Newcomb

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States

  Gary Miller

  California, Numbers, United States

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• The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Successful, Luck, Program

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• I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know how much of that killer instinct lurks in the darkness. I used to think the house-burning paranoia was the result of some upper-middle-class fear regarding the potential destruction of a half-million-dollar Westchester house the size of a matchbox. But then I realized the fear stemmed from something far less complex: we're not used to fire. Candles are a staple of the Judaic existence and, like many suburban residents before us, we're pretty bad Jews.

  Sloane Crosley

  Cat, Thinking, Fire

  Sloane Crosley (2008). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.15, Penguin

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• One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led to the creation of new economies and the expansion of some old ones – I have already mentioned the drug trade and the market for sexual services. At the same time, though, there are any number of communities that more than welcome prisons as a source of employment. Communities even compete with one another to be the site where new prisons will be constructed because prisons create a significant number of relatively good jobs for their residents

  Angela Davis

  Jobs, Color, Numbers

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• We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions... We are near a tipping point, a point of no return, beyond which the built in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to levels of climate change with staggering consequences for humanity and all of the residents of this planet.

  James Hansen

  Decide Upon, Years, Humanity

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• I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on the road, or in the field, at the theatre, the coffee-house, or at home, he had never overheard Americans conversing without the word DOLLAR being pronounced between them. Such unity of purpose ... can ... be found nowhere else, except... in an ant's nest.

  Frances Trollope

  Coffee, Home, America

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• I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.

  Alfredo Stroessner

  Country, Thinking, Order

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• Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Doe, May, Becoming

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• I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Real, Liberty, Biometrics

  "Reviving the love Labour's lost" by Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

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• I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.

  Patrick MacGill

  Military, War, Army

  Patrick MacGill (2008). “The Amateur Army”, Forbes Press

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• That's an interesting paradox to think about. Make it legal and it's no good. Why? Because as long as it's illegal the people who come in do not qualify for welfare, they don't qualify for social security, they don't qualify for the other myriad of benefits that we pour out from our left pocket to our right pocket. So long as they don't qualify they migrate to jobs. They take jobs that most residents of this country are unwilling to take. They provide employers with the kind of workers that they cannot get. They're hard workers, they're good workers, and they are clearly better off.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Jobs, Hard Work

  "Illegal Immigration: A Feature, Not A Bug, Said Milton Friedman" by Brian Doherty, reason.com. May 11, 2011.

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• Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both. If you have a welfare state, if you have a state in which every resident is promises a certain minimal level of income, or a minimum level of subsistence, regardless of whether he works or not, produces it or not. Then it really is an impossible thing.

  Milton Friedman

  Jobs, Impossible Things, Promise

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• Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.

  Elton Gallegly

  Long, Green, Visitors

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• The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  People, Today, Facts

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