Janet Reno Quotes
A street criminal can steal only what he can carry, but with a stroke of a pen, the dialing of a telephone or the pushing of a computer key, the white collar criminal can and does steal billions.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.
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I want to see more sports in schools.
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Yeah, I'm a spiritual person.
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Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.
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I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.
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When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.
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I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.
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We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
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I really like structured coats and layered scarves, and I especially love cashmere sweaters.
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There are going to be good days and bad days... and you have to learn to fight through that.
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When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.
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I was scouted at the age of 10 by a Hollywood agent. I was a really shy, geeky-looking thing, and started in the industry by doing 'extra' work on films.
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Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill.
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When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.
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Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.
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I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
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A street criminal can steal only what he can carry, but with a stroke of a pen, the dialing of a telephone or the pushing of a computer key, the white collar criminal can and does steal billions.
