"But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government."

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Source : "The Business of Government Hour" with Paul Lawrence, www.businessofgovernment.org. August 30, 2003.

Alphonso Jackson

#Government Quotes #Years Quotes #Two Quotes

“Complaining is another way of saying to others, YOU SOLVE THE PROBLEM.”
“The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along.”

Source : Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com
“I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For the amount of talent I had (and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke) I enjoyed a tremendous career.”
“When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.”
“While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.”
“I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.”
“Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.”

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