Haskell Wexler Quotes
Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.
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I am too insecure to crash early. I feel life will pass me by while I'm sleeping.
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I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.
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I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.
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The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.
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If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
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There will always be apologists for the powerful and politically connected who commit crimes.
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I've crashed my car three times.
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I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.
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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness-justice.
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Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.
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The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.
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It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.
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My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive! I'm just grateful to be here at all.
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Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.
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But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.
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Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
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I was home-schooled and I graduated super-early. But I've always had older friends, so I got to go to all their dances. I got the best of both worlds. I had the choice to go to prom with a friend of mine and I decided not to because I was filming very close to that. But red carpets and the 'G.B.F' prom were so much better.
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Keep starting until you finish.
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I like to process things and I do like to write about what I’m feeling and when something really emotionally hits me, whether it’s joyful or traumatic, I know I need to write about it to get that experience out.
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David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking.
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Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.
