Janis Karpinski Quotes
Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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No matter how much you've done before, you wonder if there will be a light at the end of this particular tunnel. It's the nature of the beast, and it's a part of what compels us. Every movie is a new lesson you learn making your way through it.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all.
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As a director, there's no natural career progression. So after 'The Wackness,' which was very personal to me, I was very, very picky about what I was going to do next, to the point where I think that I was almost too picky.
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Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.
