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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Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.
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I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I would move to New York in a heartbeat.
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There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.
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Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.
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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.
