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David Dinkins

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."

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Donna Grant

"A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries."

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Donna Grant

"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."

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Donna Grant

"It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession."

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Donna Grant

"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."

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Donna Grant

"I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in."

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Donna Grant

"The difference with me is that I did inhale."

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Donna Grant

"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."

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Donna Grant

"About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it."

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Donna Grant

"That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends."

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David Dinkins
"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."

Money

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

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David Dinkins
"Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated."

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

Love

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

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David Dinkins
"There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do."

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David Dinkins
"In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee."

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David Dinkins
"Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages."

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David Dinkins
"I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there."

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