Joseph J. Lhota quote: "What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork."

The bracelet says 'Fear Nothing.' It was given to me by my friends, and it was made for me a...
JOSEPH J. LHOTA

Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin ...
JOSEPH J. LHOTA

I do fear God, but I will also tell you that when a doctor diagnoses you and the word 'cancer...
JOSEPH J. LHOTA

I'm never surprised by the insensitivity of 'The New York Times' editorial board.
JOSEPH J. LHOTA

Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus...
JOSEPH J. LHOTA

This idea of tying me to Giuliani is quite unique. I know Rudy Giuliani. I like Rudy Giuliani. I wor...
JOSEPH J. LHOTA

What was unique about me being in City Hall during the Giuliani Administration, I was the only one w...
JOE LHOTA

In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union,...
JOE LHOTA

I am extremely respectful of the Jewish community. You know, I am Christian. I think of Jews as my o...
JOE LHOTA

My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to ...
JOE LHOTA

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was ...
JOE LHOTA

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the...
JOE LHOTA

Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosop...
JOE LHOTA

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. W...
JOSEPH J. ELLIS

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
JOSEPH J. ELLIS

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent in...
JOSEPH J. ELLIS

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually...
JOSEPH J. ELLIS

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the ...
JOSEPH J. ELLIS

Ordinary British soldiers harbored several strange preconceptions of their own. Some were surprised ...
JOSEPH J. ELLIS

It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history ...
JOSEPH J. ELLIS

Burr had the dark and severe coloring of his Edwards ancestry, with black hair receding from the for...
JOSEPH J. ELLIS

You belong with us, the lost of the lost, the tribe without a home, a tribe of orphans living our ab...
J. JOSEPH WRIGHT

The Tanakee are thought to possess strange, almost supernatural powers.Their eyes are described as l...
J. JOSEPH WRIGHT

Hey. My life’s not all about weird little creatures pretending to be teddy bears.” From Tribe of...
J. JOSEPH WRIGHT

Perhaps, in that eerily instinctive way in which he always grasped the difference between the essent...
JOSEPH J. ELLIS

Upon learning that Washington intended to reject the mantle of emperor, no less an authority than Ge...
JOSEPH J. ELLIS

My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT

No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT

When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT

I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT

Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT

If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT

I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT

My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT

If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT

I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT

When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT

You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT

I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT

A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT

I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT

I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT

There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT

I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT

People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT

A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT

If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT

I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT

Midi is my hobby.
J. J. JOHNSON

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the l...
J. J. JOHNSON

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood...
J. J. JOHNSON

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ...
J. J. JOHNSON

We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha...
J. J. FIELD

You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows...
J. J. FIELD

The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
J. J. FIELD

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage...
J. J. ABRAMS

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
J. J. ABRAMS

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. ABRAMS

I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
J. J. ABRAMS

When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be su...
J. J. ABRAMS

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
J. J. ABRAMS

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
J. J. ABRAMS

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
J. J. ABRAMS

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. ABRAMS

I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. ABRAMS

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginat...
J. J. ABRAMS

I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a...
J. J. ABRAMS

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end...
J. J. ABRAMS

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. ABRAMS

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. ABRAMS

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. ABRAMS

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J. J. ABRAMS

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. ABRAMS

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. ABRAMS

When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and t...
J. J. ABRAMS

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles ...
J. J. ABRAMS

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. ABRAMS

When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics an...
J. J. WATT

I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. WATT

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
J. J. PROCTER

If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every si...
J. J. WATT

I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and ener...
J. J. WATT

What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
J. J. WATT

I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. ABRAMS

Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. FURNAS

What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so exci...
J. J. ABRAMS

My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT

I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I th...
J. J. WATT

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically...
J. J. ABRAMS

With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS

You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One D...
J. J. WATT

My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p...
J. J. WATT

When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, ...
J. J. WATT

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS

It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT

In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
J. J. WATT

The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT

You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
J. J. WATT

There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE

I'm a fast writer.
J. J. ABRAMS

There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking...
J. J. WATT

It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It'...
J. J. WATT

It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
J. J. WATT

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on h...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turn...
JOSEPH BOLOGNA

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
JOSEPH ROUX

Justice is the truth in action.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Innocence is always unsuspicious.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.
JOSEPH ROTBLAT

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely th...
JOSEPH CONRAD

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly he...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. N...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.
NAFISA JOSEPH

The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it ...
NAFISA JOSEPH

Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my g...
NAFISA JOSEPH

I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
NAFISA JOSEPH

I have always loved animals since I was very young.
NAFISA JOSEPH

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eye...
NAFISA JOSEPH

Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.
NAFISA JOSEPH

Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and y...
NAFISA JOSEPH

Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mis...
NAFISA JOSEPH

I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!
NAFISA JOSEPH

Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
NAFISA JOSEPH

I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
NAFISA JOSEPH

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by t...
JOSEPH ADDISON

There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.&#...
TYLER JOSEPH

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed...
JOSEPH LANCASTER

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bo...
JOSEPH CONRAD

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i...
JOSEPH HELLER

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned him...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can ch...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique pote...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple a...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Love is a friendship set to music.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the e...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dyin...
JOSEPH ADDISON

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But th...
JOSEPH ADDISON

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
JOSEPH ROUX

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
JOSEPH ROUX

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
JOSEPH ROUX

I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH

Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
JOSEPH ADDISON

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRAD

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least...
JOSEPH LANCASTER

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the...
JOSEPH MITCHELL

I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates.
TYLER JOSEPH

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISON

This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls i...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good na...
JOSEPH ADDISON

'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISON

My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Way...
JOSEPH BOLOGNA

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
JOSEPH ADDISON

Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
JOSEPH ADDISON

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
CHIEF JOSEPH

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
JOSEPH ADDISON

If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he ...
JOSEPH ADDISON

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

My voice is still for war.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright...
JOSEPH ADDISON

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
JOSEPH ROUX

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...
JOSEPH CONRAD

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.
JOSEPH ADDISON

There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now n...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.
JOSEPH PARKINSON

A lot of people have mentioned that I'm the X-factor on the team. I'll try and do what I've been try...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

The ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.
ADRIAN JOSEPH

ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.
ADRIAN JOSEPH

I stepped up with confidence to take the shot, and it went in. After the shot went through the net, ...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

We're going to come out like we do every game playing defense and playing with a lot of confidence. ...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

I've been given more opportunities, and I'm just trying to step up and do big things along with Sean...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

When Sean came back in the game, he kept on scoring so all their focus was on Sean. That made me wid...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

I try to learn from my mistakes. When I didn't take that 3-pointer against Florida State, I didn't h...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

I didn't think about the Florida State game anymore because I had a bad game. I don't try to dwell o...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, wi...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath...
JOSEPH ADDISON

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for t...
JOSEPH LANCASTER

Sometimes I don't even deliberate. I just decide from the bench, it's so obvious. The beauti...
JOSEPH WAPNER

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. ...
JOSEPH SUGARMAN

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon ...
JOSEPH HELLER

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above anothe...
JOSEPH ADDISON

What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

Joseph J. Lhota

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