Raymond Kelly (Raymond Walter Kelly) Quotes
When I had the job of police commissioner, 20 years ago, I was more sensitive, more cognizant of complaints and concerned about public opinion. I've learned to do what I think is the right thing. That lessens the impact of criticism. You get used to a pressurized environment and expect it every day.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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I don't believe in murder.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no deliberate effort, then human nature would not be able to beautify itself.
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Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.
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Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.
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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
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For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science, that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat’s are really deadly.
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Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.
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No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.
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On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.
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I was crawling out of the bedroom window with my older sister when I should have still been playing with dolls.
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All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.
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You really have to listen and be vulnerable and open to the other actors and the environment.
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I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
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When I had the job of police commissioner, 20 years ago, I was more sensitive, more cognizant of complaints and concerned about public opinion. I've learned to do what I think is the right thing. That lessens the impact of criticism. You get used to a pressurized environment and expect it every day.
