Allan Pinkerton Quotes
Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
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I've got loads of nieces and nephews.
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
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I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.
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There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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I always carry a Tom Ford lipstick and Tachta face blotters to get me through the day.
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Wearisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.
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Not that human beings need to be violent in order to be human, but if you ever lose the will to control, the will to destroy, then it must be because you choose to lose it. My role was not to force you to be gentle and kind; it was to keep you alive while you decided for yourselves what kind of people you wanted to be.
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I know. And that's what took me so long.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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We believe content relationships are compelling draws even where paid-TV-provided guides are prevalent, such as here in the United States.
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But don't you find this interesting that the one big area where gay men are more like straight men is in sex? I mean, that is?both amusing and odd.
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We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.
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Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin.
