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David Dinkins

"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."

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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."

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Amber Hurdle

"The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job."

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Amber Hurdle

"I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots."

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Amber Hurdle

"Anybody can say she's an actress. It's another thing to get a job."

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Amber Hurdle

"The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws."

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Amber Hurdle

"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."

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Amber Hurdle

"I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy."

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Amber Hurdle

"We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks."

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Amber Hurdle

"A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job."

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Amber Hurdle

"If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside."

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

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David Dinkins
"Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones."

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

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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."

Difference

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David Dinkins
"My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people."

Family

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David Dinkins
"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."

Crime

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

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