Albert Pierrepoint Quotes
The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.
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Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.
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I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.
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Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
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If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.
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Back then it was a very realistic thing for me. My own thing was, you know, wake up at 5 in the afternoon, it's dark out, hang out, maybe take a shower, then start drinking, start smoking pot, go out with friends, get wasted.
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Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.
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Objection to scientific knowledge: this world doesn't deserve to be known.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
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The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.
