Residents Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city's biggest strength, and it is Toronto's unique strength.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Unique, Cities, Toronto

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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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• 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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• 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 CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold.

  Michael Lewis

  Wall, Class, America

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.88, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.

  Roberto Bolano

  Laughter, Dark, Laughing

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• well, young man," the judge began, what it biols down to this if the court so desires and if you belive that your home setting is undesirable... you may return and desire with your mother at your home residents

  Dave Pelzer

  Mother, Home, Men

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• When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Spiritual, Lost

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.151, Macmillan

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• Anyone can run for office. When I ran for Governor of Minnesota, the only requirement was that you had to be a state resident. I believe you had to be over thirty five years old, something like that. That's the way our country was founded. That anyone can run for office. That you're not required to be a lawyer, you're not required to be anything.

  Jesse Ventura

  Running, Country, Believe

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• If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Writing, Men, Wife

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.3

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• Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.

  Rick Perry

  White, America, Giving

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Television, Information, Bypass

  "Murdoch and China". www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2003.

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• Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.

  Eric Liu

  Age, United States, Citizens

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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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• I have privileges even in comparison to a Palestinian Israeli because Palestinian Israelis who live permanently in Ramallah risk their status, not as citizens but as residents. They might lose their social rights if they move to Ramallah. But I won't, so I live with privileges. That notion is very difficult for me as a child who was raised in a left-wing family, a family of people who suffered discrimination as Jews abroad. The notion that I am so privileged is disgusting. But this is what it means to live in a white society. You are white, so you are privileged.

  Amira Hass

  Children, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I try and make it to the word exactly what I said four years ago and what I said was that those who've come here illegally should not be given a special pathway, a favored pathway to become permanent residents merely by virtue of having come here illegally. That they should be in line with everybody - they should be given the opportunity to get in line with everybody else but they go to the back of the line.

  Mitt Romney

  Opportunity, Years, Special

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