Janet Napolitano Quotes
The rule of law has become victim, and the people who are experiencing it the most are those communities along the border, ... It is a very, very big problem for us.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.
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Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80's, I don't think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer.
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Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.
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Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
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I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.
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Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
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Quand une chose a été dite et bien dite, n'ayez aucun scrupule, prenez-la, copiez.
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It's time to renew our commitment to the world around us.
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The rule of law has become victim, and the people who are experiencing it the most are those communities along the border, ... It is a very, very big problem for us.
