Ficano Advisory Quotes

#1. Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

Harold Washington

#2. My life started being awesome five years ago.

Connie Britton

#3. Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things.

Jacob Bannon

#4. The instrumentalization of action and the degradation of politics into a means for something else has of course never really succeeded in eliminating action, in preventing its being one of the decisive human experiences, or in destroying the realm of human affairs altogether.

Hannah Arendt

#5. Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. [Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.

Georges Bataille

#7. The United Auto Workers is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as 'workers' (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.

Mark Steyn