Janet Reno Quotes
I think one of the keys to any crime-prevention program that's got to be developed is to focus on punishment - to let people know that there is a sanction and a punishment for hurting others.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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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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If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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I like things simple.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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I'd rather have fewer spectacular theaters than tons of cheap little multiplexes.
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I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.
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It just seemed so odd as people had never commented on my body before. Every woman obsesses over her figure, but I was happy, I felt sexy - I never thought about it. I know this sounds naive, but I honestly never expected this kind of attention.
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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
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It's very dangerous for a storyteller to walk into a situation with a political agenda because you end up telling a story about issues instead of telling a story about people.
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I think one of the keys to any crime-prevention program that's got to be developed is to focus on punishment - to let people know that there is a sanction and a punishment for hurting others.
