Daryl Gates Quotes
We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did.

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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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When it gets down to it you just have to act.
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I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.
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If someone decides to go ahead with a project that I had rejected earlier, and it works out well for him or her, there is no point in feeling bad.
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As the body cannot be sustained without corporeal food, nor continue in natural life, so without this life-giving food the soul cannot persist in the spiritual life of grace.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
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If you let even a little sin into your heart, it's going to contaminate your prayers. Your Christian life will not achieve its full potential.
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We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did.