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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.
- Christine Quinn
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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.
- Christine Quinn
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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.
- Christine Quinn
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#Little
#Men
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'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history.
- Christine Quinn
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#Best
#Corner
#History
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I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.'
- Christine Quinn
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#Myself
#Problems
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#Woman
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
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#Whatever
We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.
- Christine Quinn
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#Us
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
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#Back
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At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.
- Christine Quinn
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When I end up yelling, it's not really deliberate. It's usually out of some moment of passion or frustration or real desire to get unstuck.
- Christine Quinn
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Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.
- Christine Quinn
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#Standing
#Things
There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.
- Christine Quinn
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#Someone
#Will
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
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#Perspective
#Trying
#Understand
Bike lanes are clearly controversial. And one of the problems with bike lanes - and I'm generally a supporter of bike lanes - but one of the problems with bike lanes has been not the concept of them, which I support, but the way the Department of Transportation has implemented them without consultation with communities and community boards.
- Christine Quinn
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#Way
Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.
- Christine Quinn
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#Happen
#Magic
#You
I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.
- Christine Quinn
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#Progressive
#Proud
#Work
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.
- Christine Quinn
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#Work
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
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