Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Quotes
The DOJ has employed these investigations in communities across our nation to reform serious patterns and practices of force, biased policing and other unconstitutional practices by law enforcement. I'm asking the Department of Justice to investigate if our police department has engaged in a pattern or practice of stops, searches or arrests that violate the Fourth Amendment.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.
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I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, 'You make your own luck.'
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I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.
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Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it's living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to maintain this sense of, 'Why do I do what I do?'
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There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves.
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'She gives him candy. They're probably going to get married.'
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No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honour, it has no word to keep. … Hitler is himself the nation. That incidentally is why Hitler always has to talk so loud, even in private conversation - because he is speaking with 78 million voices.
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I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
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But since he hadThe genuis to be loved, why let him haveThe justice to be honoured in his grave.
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So many heroes are driven by destiny. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, they were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn't feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight.
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I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder to each other in times of trauma than we tend to portray in our stories.
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It is my strong belief that the Chinese people are just as proud as we Americans are proud.
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If we members of the Jewish community don't support the Jewish organizations, nobody else will.
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The DOJ has employed these investigations in communities across our nation to reform serious patterns and practices of force, biased policing and other unconstitutional practices by law enforcement. I'm asking the Department of Justice to investigate if our police department has engaged in a pattern or practice of stops, searches or arrests that violate the Fourth Amendment.
