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"There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad."
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"Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster."
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"In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster."
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"One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea."
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"There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster."
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"There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster."
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"The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war."
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"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."
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"Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!"
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"Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills."
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"If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves."
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"Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon."
People
"And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot."
Time
"We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together."
Time
"Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does."
Government
"Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past."
Future
"I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money."
Money
"Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right."
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"In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take."
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"The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city."
People
"I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue."
Environment
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