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I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.

— Emanuel Celler

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

— John Podhoretz

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.

— Norman Rockwell

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

— Barbra Streisand

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

— Herbert Hoover

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

— John Breaux

I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.

— Maria Semple

I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.

— Ed Koch

✗Opposing Perspectives

I parted ways with the Congress, a party that I served for so many years, because its leadership constantly humiliated me by ignoring my talent both as a leader and an administrator.

— Satpal Maharaj

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

— Gideon Welles

I went to see Ocean Colour Scene at Shepherds Bush and and felt part of something. They paved the way for me.

— Bradley Wiggins