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.

Raymond Kelly

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• Opinion
• Police
• Criticism
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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.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Think
  • Right

• I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Watch
  • Swim

• When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Done
  • You
  • Rome

• 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.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • People
  • Think
  • Mistake

• 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.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Future
  • Myself
  • Destiny

• I love the produce section at the grocery store.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Produce
  • Store
  • Grocery

• I don't believe in murder.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Voice

• 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.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Want
  • Day
  • Forever

• 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.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Sky

• On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart
  • House
  • March

• I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.

  

  Brian Jacques
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Success

• It seemed to me that I could write commercial fiction. I wasn't sure whether I could, or whether I wanted to write serious fiction at that point. So I said, 'Let me try something else,' and I wrote a mystery - but I didn't know much about it.

  

  James Patterson
  • Serious

• There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since.

  

  Charisma Carpenter
  • Good
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.

  

  Bill Joy
  • Effort

• Had it not been for 'The Apprentice' and Donald Trump, I wouldn't have met my wife through an interview with 'E! News.'

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Wife
  • Trump

• Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.

  

  Clive Sinclair
  • Feeling
  • Communication

• I certainly know first hand the waste one lady can create through her primping routine, because I am a victim of fashion: to me a day without makeup and a bouffant to match is a day wasted. I love it all - whether it's fancy, cheap or, I'm ashamed to say, even if it's bad for the environment.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Bad
  • Hand
  • Fashion

• I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off. I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted. You get bummed out, and then you go, 'Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself.' That kind of helps.

  

  Alden Ehrenreich
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Present

• I don't plan tours necessarily around records. I know that's what most people do.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • People

• 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.

  

  Raymond Kelly
  • Environment
  • Opinion
  • Police