"I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life."

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Source : Source: www.finalcall.com

Kwame Kilpatrick

#Cities Quotes #President Quotes #Want Quotes

“Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed a few.”
“It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.”
“Each time someone dies, a library burns.”
“No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.”
“Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways.”

Source : Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeil (2003). “The Story of English”, Penguin Group USA
“Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.”
“The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon.”

Source : Elinor Wylie, “The Falcon”
“So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.”

Source : Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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