Mary Schapiro Quotes
When the SEC needs to be deterring corporate wrongdoing, the 'penalty pilot' program sends the wrong message.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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It's important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced - as three-dimensional, as human - as the characters who we traditionally see getting to play the protagonist. The good guys and the bad guys. The reason that is important is because it's a better reflection of the reality of the world we live in.
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed up at school. They got me interested in writing. Started my first novel at about eight. The title: 'The Canals of Mars.'
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People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.
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My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
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For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.
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The older supermodels sometimes don't agree with the fact there is a new generation of models. We're not saying we're supermodels. I'd rather people look at us as businesspeople, and, yes, modeling is our business right now, but we're not trying to take anybody's spot, and we're not trying to discredit the past.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.
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'Jack,you have debauched my sloth.'
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These, in the day when heaven was falling,The hour when earth’s foundations fled,Followed their mercenary callingAnd took their wages and are dead.Their shoulders held the sky suspended;They stood, and earth’s foundations stay;What God abandoned, these defended,And saved the sum of things for pay.
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It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.
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Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being
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You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.
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My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.
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You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.
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When the SEC needs to be deterring corporate wrongdoing, the 'penalty pilot' program sends the wrong message.
