Janet Reno Quotes
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
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What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
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One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.
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I've got two Rolexes that I'm very proud of - a gold Presidential that was a gift and a white gold one I gifted myself. I'm trying to step my game up and get a few more of those.
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Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
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I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?
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Marx said that he had stood Hegel on his head; often Mr. Horace Gregory has simply stood Pollyana on her head.
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People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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Nothing's Planted, I don't have a thing in the ground.
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In olden days a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking But now, Heaven knows, Anything goes.
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Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.
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If I had to compete against someone almost two feet taller than me, I wouldn't want to play.
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My wife is one of the most extroverted people I know. She could out-talk Oprah and Joyce Meyer simultaneously.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to bad habits, and takes force from good example. And, surely, there is nothing in such associations; as wicked affinities will insure to the sinner in the future state, to incline him to repentance.
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Why do people look to the government to fix the economy? It's mind-boggling.
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But my body was telling its story. I have read a lot of stuff about cancer. I needed this book. I wish I'd had this book when I had cancer. I wanted someone to be talking to me about "fart floors." I wanted somebody telling me what it was like to have a colostomy bag. I felt so alone. And if you're a person who's been traumatized by past abuse, it's so potentially re-traumatizing. You slip right into "oh my god, this is the only person this has happened to before" mentality: "I'm especially bad and I have especially bad cancer..."
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We must heal the divisions caused by intolerance and bigotry.
