"I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up."

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Source : “The Notorious Blago” by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 11, 2010.

Rod Blagojevich

#Growing Up Quotes #Father Quotes #Shoes Quotes

“The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me.”
“Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.”
“Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.”
“I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.”
“It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs....”
“All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.”
“I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer.”

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