"The majority of people who come to America come for a better life, just like the Italians, the Jews, the Irish, and the Polish did in generations before. A lot of the Irish came here back in the turn of the 19th to the 20th century because there were no opportunities and no options at home for them. There were no jobs and there was extreme poverty. They came here to be able to send money back home."

-- Marty Walsh

#Jobs Quotes #Home Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.”

Source : "All along the watchtower" by Nick Hasted, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2002.
“Finally I'm really happy with the way I'm playing again after a couple of frustrating years.”
“High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.”
“The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying.”
“People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.”
“Our sin reached its full horror and found its most awful expression in the cross.”
“I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.”
“The character is everything that I felt strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things and I realized that I hated her. How do you play someone you hate? But I found it really interesting, and it gave me a whole new insight into what my job, or my role as an actress, could be.”

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