"Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand"

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Source : "Landrieu blasts Beck" by Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 29, 2010.

Mary Landrieu

#Years Quotes #Two Quotes #House Quotes

“...... an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts.....a camp for semi-demented adults.... Venice is like the legendary Phoenix - it always seems to rise again from the ashes.”
“But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore”
“He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!”
“School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.”

Source : Myla Goldberg (2005). “Bee Season”, Anchor
“Iâ€™m just not interested.â€ â€œDo you have ovaries?â€ Jacob asked. I shot him a look. â€œYes.â€ â€¦ â€œThen how are you not interested.”
“Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.”
“Everybody plays their part in this world and not all parts are the same. So I look at it like whatever I was put here to do that's what the outcome is.”
“It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.”

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