John Fleming Quotes

While we must condemn any misuse of their authority, let's not forget that, by far, police are fulfilling their duty to protect and serve.

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• People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • America
  • Angry

• I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Faith

• When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Words
  • Beginning

• I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Road

• You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • You
  • Attitude

• I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Customers
  • Competitive
  • CEO

• I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • World
  • American
  • Water

• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Men
  • History
  • Nations

• I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Think
  • Decisions
  • Vote

• The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Practice
  • Values

• I've never personally been anorexic.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Never
  • Been
  • Personally

• You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • People
  • Know
  • Leader

• We eat pretty healthy foods, and I've taught my kids since they were little about knocking out trans fats.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Healthy

• I think some cases are different than others, but all of the child actors that I have encountered, as well as myself, are real kids. I mean we do all the things that kids do. We're normal. We just like to do different things. We like to act and make people feel happy or sad, but we're 'real' people.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• We have testimony saying, and I think common sense also dictates, that in a failed state like Syria, you don't have any government information, police reports to rely on to vet somebody. So there's no way to do a background check from somebody coming out of Syria. There's no way we can find out whether they're safe or not.

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • Police

• Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Pain
  • Police
  • Savage

• Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • School
  • Parents
  • Education

• A free citizen in a free state, it seems to me, has an inalienable right to play with whomsoever he will, so long as he does not disturb the general peace. If any other citizen, offended by the spectacle, makes a pother, then that other citizen, and not the man exercising his inalienable right, should be put down by the police.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Long
  • Free
  • Peace

• I always love making albums. I'm passionate about it and it's something that's healthy for the soul and spirit.

  

  Lee Ritenour
  • Soul

• While we must condemn any misuse of their authority, let's not forget that, by far, police are fulfilling their duty to protect and serve.

  

  John Fleming
  • Police