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“Hoboken is a neat place.”
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“The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y.”
Source : "Joe Lhota: The Daily News Sitdown". Interview with Celeste Katz, www.nydailynews.com. January 18, 2013. 
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“Know what your customers want most and what your company does best. Focus on where those two meet.”
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“I always did drawings. Then, few years ago, I started working with large-scale paper. It's an extension of performance, because the pieces are the size of my full body. I use pencils, acrylic, watercolors, and I also incorporate textual messages. I did most of them in a monastery in Spain at the top of a mountain. I lived there a bit like a monk. I meditate quite often. At night, which is when I like to work, I like to think I have conversations with Francisco Goya. He died so many years ago, of course, but somehow, his ghost is always with me.”
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“It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion”
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“There are 6 billion people in the world and every single one is a diamond in some stage of being polished. Life is either going to polish you up or grind you down. And the difference between the two lies in how much hope you have, how much faith you have in the fact that you do carry something special on the inside that's waiting to get out. Many give up, not knowing they were only 10 minutes from triumph.”
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“Being funny in life is a lot more like judo. It's using the energy...”
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“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
Source : 'Political Essays' (1819) '"The Times" Newspaper'
