Jeff Lindsay Quotes
I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice.
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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You learn your text and have it in the back of your head, without a thought as to how you're going to say it.
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Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.
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Every time the liberals pass a bill - I don't care what it involves - they stick criminal sanctions on it. They don't feel there is any way people are going to keep a law unless they can put them in jail.
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I don't think I could ever have a desk job, so I get to be mobile. I'm on set. I get to walk around kind of doing my own thing, being independent - it's just a really good vibe. Everyone on a film set is very happy, and they all love their jobs, so it's a cool environment to be a part of.
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I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice.
