Dennis Farina Quotes
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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You know, I do not know, I just want to date someone who makes me happy.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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President Obama's election has taught us to stop being paralyzed by excuses and given us a floodgate of hope. I'm more daring and going after things that I once thought were not possible.
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I was brought up as a normal kid.
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Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.
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I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.
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Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.
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Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator.
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
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O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision.
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The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.
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Paris somehow lends itself to conceptual new ideas. I don't know why it is. There is a certain magic to that city.
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Never make unsupportable assumptions about your enemies, Martin. It can be a fatal self-indulgence.
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I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack.
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Youku Tudou gives us the reach into China that we've been looking for, and we look forward to sharing even more content with international audiences in the near future.
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I can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as light and funny as I can. I'm always making really awkward jokes. You have to make life fun and not take it too seriously. I may look like I'm very serious and into my work, but if you knew me, I'm just a jokester.
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Passion is the breath we take, the water we drink to sustain ourselves. Without air and water we perish; without passion an artist will wither and blow away.
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Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.
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I really don't think there's such a thing as an ex-policeman.
