Janet Reno Quotes
I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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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 just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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I was born free.
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
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I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.
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People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.
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I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.
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I am interested in politics but have stayed away from writing overtly political songs, or message songs, because I find it difficult to discuss politics intelligently in a 4-minute song. But I am finding there are ways to get bits and pieces of political thought across without preaching that the people have the power or we shall not be moved. Of course these sentiments have their place too - I'm not knocking Phil Ochs - but that's a different kind of music, songs to play at rallies, not to achieve a state of bliss.
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I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.
