James Q. Wilson Quotes
Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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Making music is fantastic.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
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I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
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Lucy is such a perfectionist.
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Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.
