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David Dinkins

"As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then."

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"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."

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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

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"There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon."

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"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."

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"I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me."

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"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."

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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

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"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."

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"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"

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"So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research."

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"Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again."
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"I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs."
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"We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time."
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"I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs."
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"But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike."
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"The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are."
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"There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do."
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"So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare."
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"Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished."
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"I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor."
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