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"And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation."
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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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"You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed."
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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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"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."
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"I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop."
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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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"And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation."
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"I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club."
Job

"And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet."
People

"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."
People

"I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs."
Love

"We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that."
Politics

"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."
Government

"I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs."
Employment

"But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike."
Politics

"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."
Art
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