"Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote."

-- Carol Moseley Braun

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“Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.”
“I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.”

Source : "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.
“There is a lot of catarsis that passes itself off as art or comedy and I'm kind of critical of that. I think that just because you bare your soul or underwear or private moments it doesn't , or necessarily make for entertainment, or good writing, or funny writing.”
“Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.”
“While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.”
“People have asked me, what about your tattoos when you're ninety? Why would it bother me then? I would still want to get tattooed even when I'm a grandmother.”
“I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel is proper.”
“Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which passions roar.”

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