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Christine Quinn
American
Politician
Born:
Jul 25
,
1966
Done
Get
People
Think
Woman
You
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I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.
Christine Quinn
Complaining
About
Talking
Done
Getting
Things
If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I'm nice.
Christine Quinn
Life
Hope
Me
You
Nice
Think
Addition
Life Goes On
Pushy
Like
Know
Because
Goes
Being
Mean
My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.
Christine Quinn
School
Mother
Old
Back
Punch
Neighborhood
Would
Classmates
Hawaiian
Had
Bakery
Parties
She
Go
Lot
Huge
Get
Organize
Cookies
Special
Fun
Prepare
Elementary
Elementary School
Served
Her
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.
Christine Quinn
Time
Tired
You
Too Much
Will
Become
Own
Too
Eat
Schedule
Because
Stop
Much
Your
Productive
Keep
Keeping
Wasting
Wasting Time
We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.
Christine Quinn
People
Think
Perfect
None
Us
Deserve
Second
Second Chances
Chances
I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you're hiding, you get to go out into the sunlight.
Christine Quinn
You
Whatever
Believe
Way
Hiding
Out
Sunlight
Come
Go
Get
Really
People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan.
Christine Quinn
Me
Woman
People
Win
Lesbian
Side
Tell
Feel
Empowered
Because
Oddly
West
West Side
Manhattan
Used
Reasons
Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.
Christine Quinn
Anger
About
Shaking
Around
Fist
Done
Getting
Being
Your
Standing
Activist
Things
I know New Yorkers are gonna vote for a candidate - me - who has the longest record of delivering for them. They want a mayor who can deliver for them. And I'm the only one - I don't care who gets in - who has that record.
Christine Quinn
Me
Vote
Care
Record
Only
Deliver
Delivering
Longest
New
Know
dont Care
Gets
Candidate
Mayor
Want
New Yorkers
Them
Gonna
Who
To get things done, you have to get people together.
Christine Quinn
You
Together
People
Get
Done
Things
My favorite app is 'StumbleUpon,' because it just gives you interesting things that are sometimes exactly the stuff I'm interested in and sometimes just silly and funny.
Christine Quinn
Funny
You
Sometimes
Favorite
Exactly
Silly
Gives
Stuff
Because
Just
Interested
Interesting
Interesting Things
App
Things
One of the things that drives me crazy as a professional woman is you'll have bought a suit, and you get home and realize you don't have a shirt to wear with it.
Christine Quinn
Home
Me
Crazy
You
Woman
One Of The Things
Wear
Drives
Bought
Shirt
Get
Realize
Professional
Things
Suit
I understand that not everyone agrees with my perspective on Ray Kelly. But what you gotta look at here is somebody like Bill de Blasio talking out of both sides of his mouth and trying to have it both ways on a really critical issue like stop-and-frisk.
Christine Quinn
You
Perspective
Somebody
Mouth
Everyone
Sides
Ways
Out
Critical
Both
Both Sides
Both Ways
Ray
Like
Look
Talking
Understand
Gotta
Issue
His
Trying
Really
Bill
Agree
Kelly
Here
Am I pushy? Yep. Do I like taking 'no' for an answer when 'no' means New Yorkers aren't going to get something they need? No. Do I push back and crack some eggs? Absolutely.
Christine Quinn
Back
Some
Something
Absolutely
Push
Pushy
Taking
New
Like
Answer
Am
Crack
Get
Eggs
Going
New Yorkers
Means
Need
'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history.
Christine Quinn
Best
History
Baby
Corner
No-One
Lines
Movie
Congressmember Weiner has shown just a pattern of reckless behavior, an inability to tell the truth, and what New Yorkers deserve is a mayor with a record of delivering for them, of vision, and a level of maturity and responsibility.
Christine Quinn
Truth
Maturity
Vision
Behavior
Responsibility
Reckless
Tell
Record
Delivering
New
Just
Mayor
New Yorkers
Inability
Pattern
Them
Shown
Deserve
Level
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.
Christine Quinn
Work
Challenges
Problems
Focused
Solve
New
Reduce
Real
Issues
Real Issues
Mayor
New Yorkers
Race
Them
Prepared
Deserve
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.
Christine Quinn
Time
Tough
Thinking
Spend
Spending
About
Only
Part
Pushy
How
Doing
Brain
Lot
Loud
Capacity
Much
Really
Acting
Used
Moment
Actually
At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with who I am, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time tempering my personality. Whatever job I have next, I'm going to be somebody who wants to get things done.
Christine Quinn
Life
Time
Personality
Job
Somebody
My Life
Whatever
Spend
Focusing
Point
Am
Lot
Get
Done
Going
Wants
Next
Who
Things
Dissatisfaction
I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of myself as lovable.
Christine Quinn
Hope
Myself
Me
You
People
Problem
Big
Nothing
Think
About
Like
Know
Lovable
Big Problem
People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a lawyer, but I play one at City Hall.
Christine Quinn
People
Lawyer
Tell
City
City Hall
Never
Come
Hall
Became
Said
Off
Little
Play
Actually
I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.
Christine Quinn
Important
Think
Immigrants
City
Small
Small Businesses
New
Economy
York
Often
New York
New York City
Realize
Really
Businesses
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.
Christine Quinn
You
Project
Tendency
Toward
Involved
Becomes
Being
Bigger
Which
Harder
Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.
Christine Quinn
Work
Will
New
Improve
Person
Anybody
New Yorkers
Help
Lives
I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.
Christine Quinn
Work
Progressive
More
Proud
When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it's not so easy to be at ease.
Christine Quinn
You
People
Press
Ease
Press Conference
Easy
Cameras
Up
Very
Conference
Front
Stand
Stand Up
Standing
Moment
Preoccupied
Watching
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