"They have vilified me, they have crucified me. Yes, they have even criticized me."

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Source : "Chicago Journal; Syntax Is a Loser in Mayoral Race" by William E. Schmidt, www.nytimes.com. February 2, 1989.

Richard J. Daley

#Criticism Quotes

“I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.”
“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer”
“Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, What is this? You know, why don't you ask me?”
“The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.”
“Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.”

Source : Augusten Burroughs (2012). “Magical Thinking”, p.207, Atlantic Books Ltd
“When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better.”
“What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.”
“The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind chimes. It's the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation.”

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