Fiorello La Guardia Quotes

#1. You know, it would be much less trouble if you were willing to bat your magic eyelashes.

Jamie Le Fay

#2. An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

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#3. Live optimistic life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Please, stay with me.

Karina Halle

#5. The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

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#6. I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

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#7. She was free, for love liberates.

Paulo Coelho

#8. Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of this country, seeking to put a barrier on science and research for the paltry sum of $39,113 out of an appropriation of $100,000,000?

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#9. God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

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#10. Just go with your gut and communicate.

Andy Cohen

#11. Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

Oliver Hudson

#12. We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.

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#13. The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.

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#14. Don't speak negatively and don't listen to those who do.

Ron Luce

#15. Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

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#16. My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

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#17. I'm scared of everything except you.

Egba Terry

#18. Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

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#19. Pull your shirt up over your mouth," he told Wylan.
"What?"
"Stop being dense. You're cuter when you're smart."
Wylan's cheeks went pink. He scowled and pulled his collar up.

Leigh Bardugo

#20. Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

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#21. In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.

Tina Fey

#22. An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#23. It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

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#24. You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

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#25. Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Drew Barrymore

#26. Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you're only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you.

Neil Gaiman

#27. When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!

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