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Mayor Diamond Joe Quimby

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JOSE MARTI Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.
SOURCE UNKNOWN As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.
DONALD TRUMP None of us is as smart as all of us.
ERIC SCHMIDT None of us are as smart as all of us
JAPANESE PROVERB The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowher...
IAN HUNTER I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
DAVID DOBKIN Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
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JAMES G. STAVRIDIS We have caught the very smart (criminals) who thought they were smarter than the rest of us, as well...
BERNIE HUBLEY I'm glad for the opportunity to move on, ... I had no idea really how people were going to vote.
MIKE MCGOWAN You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
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FIDEL CASTRO I can't vote for something that's going to give the mayor that kind of power.
JOE ALLEN I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER I had read once that dumb people didn't know they were dumb. They thought they were just as smart as...
DINAH KATT God gave us two ears but only one mouth . . . Some people say that's because He wanted us to spend t...
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CHRISTINE CHEN I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on ...
FIDEL CASTRO I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on...
UNKNOWN Live your life for the sake of life itself. As well as you do good for goodness sakes. You just done...
DERICK HASE I certainly don't want people to vote for us out of sympathy. And New Yorkers certainly don't want p...
DAN DOCTOROFF It is an unfortunate situation, as we were excited to visit such a great fishery as Toledo Bend. But...
DON RUCKS It is a little scary, but Craig is a smart businessman as well as a very good golfer. He wouldn't le...
AMY HALL You want to live your life and live it just as fully and as deeply as you can. That's your deep ...
SISSY SPACEK As mayor, I'll not just concentrate on the big skyscrapers of Manhattan,
ANTHONY WEINER In the future, ... people will live twice as long, computers will die twice as fast.
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CARLA HUBBARD [When a man speaking broken English pushed through the crowd yesterday, excitedly asking,] Are you t...
ANTHONY WEINER We cater to 'smart kids' as well. It's important that the smart kids help others that need it.
JAMES GARVIN They're not smart, because if they were smart they'd be doing this legally, ... They don't want to w...
BILL POWELL Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.
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WAYNE ROSSO I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
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BETTY WRIGHT I came here to vote and I will stand here for as long as it takes to cast my vote.
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MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
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FEDERICO MAYOR Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
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MAYOR AMABILE I don't disagree that if you're ill you should be able to get marijuana and decrease your pain, espe...
MAYOR AMABILE If you go to the museum in Sacramento today there are three people they recognize as founders of Cal...
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MICHAEL DIAMOND Yauch was great at lacking fear.
MICHAEL DIAMOND I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimi...
MICHAEL DIAMOND The sport of shooting is my life.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Honestly achieved results surpass all others.
MICHAEL DIAMOND When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.
NEIL DIAMOND Sorry dude, but we're in a boxing match and you went against your word and tried to make me look...
DUSTIN DIAMOND An individualist is one who pays his taxes with a smile
AL DIAMOND If all efficiency experts were laid end to end- I'd be in favor of it
AL DIAMOND In America we believe in Life, Liberty - and the pursuit
AL DIAMOND A penny saved is a penny wasted
AL DIAMOND Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.
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JARED DIAMOND You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple,...
HARVEY DIAMOND All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use o...
JARED DIAMOND Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox p...
JARED DIAMOND Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we h...
JARED DIAMOND Eat some pizza, play some Xbox, watch some TV. Gross? Maybe. Me? Yes.
DUSTIN DIAMOND Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and ...
BOB DIAMOND Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those milita...
JARED DIAMOND It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to European...
JARED DIAMOND The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like...
DUSTIN DIAMOND It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there w...
NEIL DIAMOND The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotli...
NEIL DIAMOND I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follo...
DUSTIN DIAMOND Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.
MICHAEL DIAMOND The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different conti...
JARED DIAMOND No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in...
JARED DIAMOND [T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values t...
JARED DIAMOND Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all ...
JARED DIAMOND Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West ...
JARED DIAMOND I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I wr...
NEIL DIAMOND I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expect...
NEIL DIAMOND You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the...
NEIL DIAMOND Some are born who never need them,
Others still who never read them, signs.
NEIL DIAMOND I thought love was more or less a giving thing.
Seems the more I gave, the less I got.
NEIL DIAMOND 'I am,' I said
To no one there,
And no one heard at all.
NEIL DIAMOND Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.
NEIL DIAMOND Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.
NEIL DIAMOND Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, co...
JARED DIAMOND I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a f...
NEIL DIAMOND I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fab...
NEIL DIAMOND I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It ha...
NEIL DIAMOND Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I'll record you there, Y...
JIM DIAMOND I personally am not conscious of my accent.
JARED DIAMOND Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tri...
JARED DIAMOND Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tri...
JARED DIAMOND The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did...
JARED DIAMOND They are going to pull out every trick in the book to get themselves re-elected. Beware of legislato...
RUSS DIAMOND Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern socie...
JARED DIAMOND Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,00...
JARED DIAMOND I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
JARED DIAMOND The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond w...
JARED DIAMOND We believe it was critical that these technology and policy resources be designed in tandem. Togethe...
CAROL DIAMOND To have a world-class tight-head in your squad is a huge asset, not only for his playing ability but...
STEVE DIAMOND Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they...
NEIL DIAMOND The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest...
JARED DIAMOND It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in...
JARED DIAMOND Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recordi...
JIM DIAMOND I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.
DUSTIN DIAMOND When we went for the pictures, we knew that this was going to be the first and only time that we wer...
AMANDA DIAMOND We had taken tons of pictures of Hailey ourselves, but they really weren't very good.
AMANDA DIAMOND It makes her real. We knew when we left the hospital that Hailey was going to die. And all you have ...
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JARED DIAMOND It is an agreement that I believe is fair.
JAMES DIAMOND It's dangerous for both attorneys to have a wild card who thinks you can disregard the law.
JAMES DIAMOND Experienced trial attorneys tend to rely on instinct when picking a jury. You get an idea of the kin...
JAMES DIAMOND In modern times, Australia was the sole continent still inhabited only by hunter-gatherers... Native...
JARED DIAMOND Science is often misrepresented as ‘the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated contro...
JARED DIAMOND We have people who have served in local and county offices and school boards. They are serious candi...
RUSS DIAMOND We're in the middle of vetting potential candidates.
RUSS DIAMOND Lawmakers should run, they should run fast and not look back. They should realize that things have c...
RUSS DIAMOND I believe this might just be never-ending.
RUSS DIAMOND It's been over a month now, and the voter outrage is still going strong.
RUSS DIAMOND The will of the people will make 2006 a historic year.
RUSS DIAMOND Leadership controlling it all is the biggest problem we have in Harrisburg. That makes (for) very fe...
RUSS DIAMOND This is the last chance for those who are truly dedicated to changing government in Pennsylvania. On...
RUSS DIAMOND This has caused consternation over our candidates publicly and in the press. People have questioned ...
RUSS DIAMOND It takes courage to overthrow your government.
RUSS DIAMOND It's easy to run with no opponents.
RUSS DIAMOND In Westmoreland and Fayette counties, we'll have a lot of candidates. In a couple of races, we might...
RUSS DIAMOND It's a different world in Pennsylvania, and anything can happen.
RUSS DIAMOND When there?s competition, the cream rises to the top. Pennsylvania is tired of the same old sour mil...
RUSS DIAMOND I can do more good doing what I?m doing right now. Besides, I?m having too much fun. This is great. ...
RUSS DIAMOND Don?t be fooled by politicians whose only goal is self-preservation.
RUSS DIAMOND Pennsylvania is tired of villains. We need heroes. I'm proud to bring you some of those heroes today...
RUSS DIAMOND Pennsylvania is tired of villains. We need heroes. These people are truly my heroes. They are dedica...
RUSS DIAMOND There are some races where we will introduce more than one candidate. In these races, we believe eac...
RUSS DIAMOND Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world'...
JARED DIAMOND Easter Island collapsed in not just an epidemic of civil war but cannibalism. Of all the collapses o...
JARED DIAMOND I read that a false alarm of a tsunami in Hawaii would cost about $68 million.
JARED DIAMOND I just want to be with my family and that's it, so it makes sense.
MICHAEL DIAMOND When we market this product, the way we approach it (is that) the ignition interlock is the best saf...
MICHAEL DIAMOND Asia has more than twice as many severely deprived children as sub-Saharan Africa. This scale of chi...
MICHAEL DIAMOND Asia has more than twice as many severely deprived children as sub-Saharan Africa. This scale of chi...
MICHAEL DIAMOND Representing Australia as an Olympian at Barcelona in 1992 and Atlanta 1996 were the proudest moment...
MICHAEL DIAMOND Intuitively, she sensed Leonardo’s gaze on her, and she caught sight of him near the entrance to t...
DELANEY DIAMOND That was out of line.”
“No, it wasn’t, querida.” He smiled, the devastating smile she f...
DELANEY DIAMOND When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my ...
NEIL DIAMOND Some days are diamonds Some days are stones Sometimes the hard times won't leave me alone Sometimes ...
NEIL DIAMOND They didn't actually think it was going to be achievable, because they were so frightened by the vas...
WILLIAM DIAMOND All the sparkly shirts and the stage trappings - that's just the performer, the public me, ... Songw...
NEIL DIAMOND Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate respo...
JARED DIAMOND I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
JARED DIAMOND Toen de bewoners van Paaseiland in de problemen kwamen, konden ze nergens heen, was er niemand bij w...
JARED DIAMOND Zo is het gegaan met de Indiaanse bevolking van San Nicolas-eiland, voor de kust van Los Angeles, di...
JARED DIAMOND ...the Viking expansion is a good example of what is termed an auto-catalytic process. In chemistry ...
JARED DIAMOND the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu concluded that Europeans and Christianity posed a threat to the stability...
JARED DIAMOND society’s structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in power, and the...
JARED DIAMOND the values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values tha...
JARED DIAMOND The people whose children had to walk barefoot to school killed the people who could buy shoes for t...
JARED DIAMOND All these adoptions of European styles make it obvious that the Greenlanders paid very close attenti...
JARED DIAMOND As on Easter Island and at Chaco Canyon, Maya peak population numbers were followed swiftly by polit...
JARED DIAMOND Almost everywhere else in the world, my archaeologist friends have an uphill struggle to convince go...
JARED DIAMOND a society’s fate lies in its own hands and depends substantially on its own choices.
JARED DIAMOND Montana would have been better off in the long run if it had never mined copper at all but had just ...
JARED DIAMOND Thus, Norse society’s structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in po...
JARED DIAMOND Así pues, tanto las sociedades como los grupos humanos más pequeños pueden tomar decisiones catas...
JARED DIAMOND I have often asked myself, "What did the Easter Islander who cut down the last palm tree say while h...
JARED DIAMOND (On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:)

Within six weeks, an estima...
JARED DIAMOND ...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
JARED DIAMOND For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrast...
JARED DIAMOND In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, spro...
JARED DIAMOND Globalization makes it impossible for modern societies to collapse in isolation, as did Easter Islan...
JARED DIAMOND Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environme...
JARED DIAMOND People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the wor...
JARED DIAMOND History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those...
JARED DIAMOND Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societi...
JARED DIAMOND The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into...
JARED DIAMOND [W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fana...
JARED DIAMOND In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us...
BOB DIAMOND They never made them to this scale. We made them much higher, much wider, so that the client and the...
WILLIAM DIAMOND I've done a lot of Internet research and read a lot of books about oils. It's my personal thing,
HARVEY DIAMOND Differences between the Old and New Worlds in domesticated plants,especially in large-seeded cereals...
JARED DIAMOND Most people are explicitly racists. In parts of the world - so called educated, so-called western so...
JARED DIAMOND Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.
JARED DIAMOND Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of ...
JARED DIAMOND If you gave me 10 million dollars, I wouldn't live any differently. Although nowadays I guess you'd ...
JARED DIAMOND The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did...
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