Christine Quinn Quotes

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Christine Quinn

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 25, 1966

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.

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You don't have to have all the answers all the time. But the best thing to know is what you don't know.

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I've already begun to put pilot programs in place that give CUNY grads opportunities to get good tech jobs. We should expand on that so that New Yorkers are getting those jobs, because those jobs are probably one of the biggest 21st Century pathways into the middle class.

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Sometimes I yell, sometimes I raise my voice. I am trying to do it less, because it's not always attractive. It's not always the right thing to do.

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New Yorkers have real issues, and they deserve to have a mayor that is prepared to work with them to solve the challenges they have, reduce the problems that they have, and they deserve to have a mayor's race that is focused on them.

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Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes.

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I couldn't describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could - but I don't think that it would be appropriate.

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Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.

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I'm tough, I'm pushy, I'm really loud. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about it. But we only have so much brain capacity, so if I'm spending part of my brain thinking about how I'm acting, A, I'm not spending all of my brain doing, and B, I'm not actually in that moment.

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Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.

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I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.

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I come as one package deal. An Irish lesbian who wakes up every day and goes to work. And I don't spend a lot of time thinking about being 'the first this' or 'the first that' because it would take up space in my brain.

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It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.

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'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history.

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I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

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All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

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Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

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Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views.

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You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

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The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

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