Shirley Franklin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.
-- Shirley Franklin

#Past #Trying #Connections
That's what I love about being mayor. Even if the problem is getting the cat out of the tree - from that to the biggest problem, you're in charge. No ambiguity. Leaders lead.
-- Shirley Franklin

#Cat #Tree #Leader
When you are an executive, my friends, that is not leadership.
-- Shirley Franklin

#Executives #My Friends
I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody.
-- Shirley Franklin

#Years #Feet #Threat

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."
I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there.

Shirley Franklin famous quotes

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