Mary Jo White Quotes

The 1993 Trade Center bombing was obviously frightening. It could have been much worse than it was.

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• A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Up
  • Law
  • Stop

• A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.

  

  Ed Wynn
  • Man
  • Mistake
  • Same

• God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Great
  • God
  • Faith

• I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Women
  • Smile
  • Aliens

• It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Done
  • Hand
  • Growth

• Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Obsessed
  • General
  • Sneakers

• The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Home
  • Values
  • Warrior

• I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Morning

• There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Treasure
  • Pirate
  • Island

• But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Writing
  • Idea
  • Working

• One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Think
  • Same
  • Plants

• It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Country
  • Done
  • Today

• When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Why
  • Political
  • Fire

• And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Great
  • Different
  • Why

• I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Love
  • Home
  • Like

• All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Fight
  • Daily

• I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Fame

• When I did 'Unforgettable,' it wasn't appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Great
  • Music
  • Singing

• In America, we need to develop communitywide structures of democratic ownership, we need to work out cooperative development, we need to work out participatory management, we need new ecological strategies developed at the local city, state, regional level.

  

  Gar Alperovitz
  • Work
  • America
  • Management

• The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.

  

  Frank Church
  • Government
  • Language
  • Hereafter

• To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Sense
  • Means
  • Motion

• I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame, really - 'Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood.' I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Real

• The 1993 Trade Center bombing was obviously frightening. It could have been much worse than it was.

  

  Mary Jo White