"The challenges presented by our budget crisis are some of the most difficult we have ever faced. We are -very simply put -adjusting to reality. These times, and our citizens, demand change."

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Source : "New Orleans Recovery Efforts". Interview with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. November 22, 2005.

Kathleen Blanco

#Reality Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Demand Quotes

“Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”

Source : James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”
“Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.”
“It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.”
“Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are â€œuniversally accepted.â€”
“The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.”
“I am a former sabre fencer and fenced as part of the Uzbek republic team.”

Source : Interview with Ian Cobain, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.
“Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.”
“Thereâ€™s no such thing as `one, true wayâ€™; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good â€” theyâ€™re the things worth living and dying for, and if you arenâ€™t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.”

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