Preet Bharara Quotes

I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.

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• The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Honor

• Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • Sweat
  • Success Is

• Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Accountability
  • Corrupt

• I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Fan

• I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.

  

  T.I.
  • Me
  • Doubt
  • Exist

• Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Business
  • Me
  • Ideology

• How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

  

  Maimonides
  • Power
  • Same
  • Distance

• Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • World
  • Men
  • Mad

• Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great.

  

  Randy West
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Game

• I normally hit the gym five times a week. I tend to do half an hour of cardio - on the treadmill or a spin class - then head for the weights. I do a lot of core work, obviously!

  

  Fleur East
  • Work
  • Week
  • Gym

• I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• The liquor tasted good and here the women all were fast...You can't jump a jet planeLike you can a freight trainSo I'll best be on my wayIn the early morning rain

  

  Gordon Lightfoot
  • Good
  • Women
  • Morning

• If you buy a sweater for €1,000 and you know that the funds you are paying are also going to help to build a hospital and a school, wouldn't you think better about it?

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • School
  • Help

• We live in a gray world, and I want to tell gray stories.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • World
  • Live

• I know it's cheesy, but if you listen to the universe, it gives you pointers. I strongly believe if you keep your ears open and eyes open, your path will become clear. You just have to make sure you don't ignore it.

  

  Matthew James Thomas
  • Believe
  • Eyes
  • Universe

• From my own perspective, I value productivity more than tradition, but the customs of the House evolve slowly.

  

  Jared Polis
  • House
  • Value
  • Perspective

• The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • World
  • War

• I've been an activist since I was a teenager. I was always curious about what we would now call social justice. I remember just trying to navigate growing up poor in an overpoliced environment with a single mother and a father who was in and out of prison.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Remember

• I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Life
  • Good
  • Interesting

• Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Action
  • Thoughts

• In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

  

  Gerald Holton
  • Science
  • Giants
  • Sit

• All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying whites and gives the spoils to indolent, grasping blacks.

  

  Rick Perlstein
  • Because
  • Understood
  • Grasping

• I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Comedy
  • Teenage
  • Prude

• I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.

  

  Preet Bharara