I was once driven north along Central Park, all the way from Chinatown. We hailed the cab in front of a building where Orthodox Jews still lived, so they shut down an elevator on Saturdays. In the taxi, I was with my mother. We were visiting her aunt, my great aunt, who was 93. She had no memory of the old country, Lithuania, but she'd been born there. Her parents escaped the pogroms so she could survived a century here. Her American prosperity was half a century of subsistence wages and thirty years of Medicare in an elevator building. The old country for the cab driver was Bangladesh, and he was a talker. He'd just graduated from college, and his prospects were good. He'd majored in a practical field, network engineering or something like that. Young and optimistic, he spoke fluent English. His big idea was to keep his countrymen out of the United States. America was great, but if he got overrun with foreigners, his kind in particular, it would be ruined. "Bangladesh is hot and crowded. Why would want to make America like that." He said this in all sincerity.
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ALEX PENELAS We all believe that the particular actions of the Coast Guard at that time were unnecessary and unwa... ALEX PENELAS However, I would like to take this opportunity to stress that our strategy remains unchanged - to cr... ALEX PARSONS I never thought it would work (this way) with me. I just wanted the opportunity to play. This heavil... ALEX PARSONS After the Nike camp, I got offered by Kentucky and then Utah and Arizona came by (during spring prac... ALEX PARSONS That Nike camp, that's where everybody looks at you. They sell you to everybody out there. You do al... ALEX PARSONS I could tell he was following me around. But it was definitely fun. ALEX PARSONS When he hit me that first time it made me realize what I was actually out there doing. ALEX PADILLA He was a man of the people, a true populist. ALEX PADILLA But we haven't come up with any measures to deal with the matter. The wage hike is impractical becau... ALEX PADILLA We are aware that how critical the problem is, ALEX PADILLA We want great schools for our kids, safe neighborhoods and the very best in emergency services, ... ... ALEX PADILLA The governor personally came here, assigned a dozen staff members to work the hall like it was a pol... ALEX PADILLA If I was the governor, I wouldn't be jumping up and down for joy here, ALEX PADILLA [But Alex Padilla, incoming league president and prominent Los Angeles Democrat, said] the governor ... ALEX PADILLA We will welcome any manufacturer of the vaccine to manufacture here, ALEX PADILLA This will not be known as the Times Square of the West, ... Times Square will be known as the l.a. l... ALEX PADILLA I don't look at history. I enjoy my hockey career here in Washington. ... I'm glad I score lots of g... ALEX OVECHKIN There was two second left in game. I don't know why he do it. He was disappointed we beat Toronto, I... ALEX OVECHKIN We lost [in the] second period. We play very well in first period but we can't score. First period, ... ALEX OVECHKIN I can't score every game. I can't do something special every game. [But] my specialty is to score go... ALEX OVECHKIN It's not easy. Sometimes you get three shots in blue line and score goals. Sometimes you get empty n... ALEX OVECHKIN They are in the garage. ALEX OVECHKIN I look forward to playing Friday and in the Olympics. ALEX OVECHKIN I feel like I'm playing better and better. ALEX OVECHKIN When he comes to the league, he probably will be the best rookie. ALEX OVECHKIN The best goal I ever scored. I just went down and shot. ALEX OVECHKIN We have a pretty solid team. ALEX NWAKA It will come in time. ALEX NWAKA Nothing went our way today in the second game. We came out kind of flat. ALEX NWAKA I really wasn't thinking much of it at the time. ALEX NWAKA Today it's not culture; it's box office. ALEX NORTH There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music. ALEX NORTH There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved. ALEX NORTH The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the... ALEX NORTH My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan. ALEX NORTH I prefer to write music for family films. I like people. ALEX NORTH I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of ... ALEX NORTH Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commer... ALEX NORTH Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impos... ALEX NORTH