Dmitri Alperovitch Quotes
Victims don't want to know they're victims. I guess that's just victim psychology: if you don't know about it, it's not really happening.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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Golf and dating don't mix.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody.
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The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was off that night, and his replacement was the cab driver who dropped you off at the theater.
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We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What's funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the 'Madden' game; that's how they learn to read offenses and defenses.
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It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.
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I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
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I've got a fantastic life. I enjoy what I do for a living. I see the blessings; I'm not blind.
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I don't worry about the integrity of the game. Our players are professionals.
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Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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There's something so glorious in giving control to the world. I think that's what I'm trying to do in my films - control the world but also let it be chaotic, let there be life.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
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Victims don't want to know they're victims. I guess that's just victim psychology: if you don't know about it, it's not really happening.
