John Ashcroft Quotes
Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.
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Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.
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I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful.
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Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.
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You've got a new Spanish-language album out now ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007], and the single ["No Llores"] is #1 on the Billboard Latin chart.
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Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk.
