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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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Donna Grant

"One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them."

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Donna Grant

"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."

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Donna Grant

"Masochism is a valuable job skill."

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Donna Grant

"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."

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Donna Grant

"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."

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Donna Grant

"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

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Donna Grant

"Writing is an incredibly lonely job."

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Donna Grant

"When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace."

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David Dinkins
"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."

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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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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."

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

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

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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."

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