Joseph Wambaugh Quotes
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.
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Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
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Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.
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When you have a specific vision for something, you just go in and attack it.
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That overachieving, ambitious, nobody-can-hold-me-down attitude I had, which came from a place of anger and aggression, has transformed into feeling like I will take on the world, but I will do it with an embrace, rather than with my dukes up.
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It is my worst experience, my worst trip to the Balkans.
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The only things we keep permanently are those we give away.
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But I'm here to say that when we do speak out, we're going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood.
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The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.
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Sarcastic Science, she would like to know, In her complacent ministry of fear, How we propose to get away from here When she has made things so we have to go Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show Us how by rocket we may hope to steer To some star off there, say, a half light-year Through temperature of absolute zero? Why wait for Science to supply the how When any amateur can tell it now? The way to go away should be the same As fifty million years ago we came- If anyone remembers how that was I have a theory, but it hardly does.
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I like to wake up at six o'clock in the morning so I have a very long morning, so I have time to meditate. I can really tell that it makes a difference - the days I don't have meditation and the days when I do.
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I don't have to do things just to please people. It's okay to do what I love because what I love, my fans love. And they're really the only ones that should matter.
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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
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We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units.
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Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.
