"The people really are what make New York City great."

-- David Dinkins

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“I think Enda Kenny has shown himself to be a good leader in the sense that he can accept that people might have differences of opinion with him, but at the same time can see that it's useful to have them involved and part of the team and I very much appreciate that.”
“I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place”
“The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So far as their gifts, aid, and inspiration are concerned, nothing prevented me from following the path prescribed by nature. If from time to time I have strayed from this path, the fault lies with me and with my failure to heed the gods' signs, or rather, their explicit instructions.”
“My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.”
“I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before Heaven was done. With The Walkmen we all wrote a lot of stuff alone, but then we'd start collaborating with each other.”
“I know from vast experience that fear talks a lot louder than courage. I need to listen to that other voice inside me, that faint one that's struggling to be heard.”
“Good servants frequently make good masters.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
“Contrastingly to the new model of distribution, we shot Hand of God using the traditional format of film. I myself use very few apps and tend not to engage in social media. I do use Instagram under my production company's name, but that's it.”

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