Carrie P. Meek Quotes
If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.Carrie P. Meek
Quotes to Explore
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
Caitriona Balfe -
I'm not the type of person that is forced.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
Rahm Emanuel -
I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
Randy Moss -
Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
Sam Simon
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Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.
Ian Mckellen -
It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
Ian Hislop -
I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.
Captain Beefheart -
There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.
Walter Benjamin -
You are white - yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. That’s American. Sometimes perhaps you don’t want to be a part of me. Nor do I often want to be a part of you. But we are, that’s true! As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me - although you’re older - and white - and somewhat more free.
Langston Hughes -
It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.
Donald Johanson
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The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.
James Earl Jones -
I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.
Dav Pilkey -
Pleasure is a revolutionary act in the face of pain.
Kevin Young -
Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.
Patti Davis -
If it's a good part in a good movie, I'll do it.
Jason Bateman -
I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has its ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with each other.
Jane Wiedlin
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People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
Norman R. Augustine -
Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.
Olga Kurylenko -
Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can.
Chad Lowe -
One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.
Eric Holder -
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
Peter Drucker -
If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
Carrie P. Meek