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I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.

Michael Bloomberg

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Michael Bloomberg
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 14
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Former Mayor Of New York City
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[Jeb Bush] could, as I describe it, run the railroad.[John] Kasich could run the railroad. Hillary Clinton can run the railroad. Running the railroad is the most important thing. You have got 4 million employees you've got to make the system work, and it doesn't work very well.
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My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me.
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We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.
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