"I'm driven. I have the opportunity to change people's lives."

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Source : "Thomas M. Menino, Mayor Who Led Boston's Renaissance, Is Dead at 71" by Katharine Q. Seelye, www.nytimes.com. October 30, 2014.

Thomas Menino

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“The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.”
“Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.”
“Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others'.”
“I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.”
“You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.”
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
“I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is the most non-elitist way to share information, hopefully seducing us into creating mutual understandings for the benefit of all.”
“Problems form an important part of our lives. They are placed in our path for us to overcome them, not to be overcome by them. We must master them, not let them master us. Every time we overcome a challenge, we grow in experience, in self assuredness, and in faith.”

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