Pete Hamill Bootleggers were romanticized by people like F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example. Gatsby is a bootlegger. And they were not thought of as evil criminals in the newspapers, either. There was a certain amount of affection for them. – Pete Hamill Affection Quotes Bootlegger Quotes Bootleggers Quotes Criminals Quotes Evil Quotes Fitzgerald Quotes Gatsby Quotes Newspapers Quotes People Quotes Romanticized Quotes Scott Quotes For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair. The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys’ name.
Larry BirdLeadership Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you’re ready to play as tough as you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got. – Larry Bird
Jorge M Perez The embargo doesn’t affect the United States, not even minimally; all of Cuba’s economy is smaller than that of Miami-Dade County, and the ones who suffer the most are Cubans. If you talk to them in the street, they’re the ones most interested in the opening of a free market in their country. – Jorge M Perez
Granit Xhaka I remember I was young, and the first game I watched was in the Premier League. It’s a big dream for me, and now that I’m here, I am very, very happy. – Granit Xhaka
Stewart Copeland Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists. – Stewart Copeland
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