"I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they donâ€™t."

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Source : "Harold Ford’s New York Times Interview Shoots His Senate Candidacy In The Foot" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

Harold Ford, Jr.

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Risk Quotes

“The fact that we're in the playoffs doesn't mean anything to us, to be honest with you. Hopefully, we can accomplish our goal of going into the playoffs on a winning note.”
“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
“I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.”
“There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 A.M. on a Thursday night in August in Shaker Heights and I bet you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I tell you, it's ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.”

Source : "A Dream of New Orleans, Interrupted". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 13, 2005.
“We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous,”
“I refuse absolutely to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. ... I obdurately insist on believing that some men are my equals.”

Source : Brigid Brophy (1968). “The Burglar: Play”
“It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.”
“All of us task-oriented obsessive compulsives must learn to slow down and let people into our lives.”

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