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.

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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
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Person
  • Type
  • Forced

• 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
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• 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
  • America
  • Leadership
  • Values

• I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Fun
  • Try
  • Have Fun

• Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Work
  • Crazy
  • Tough

• 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
  • Life
  • Me
  • Public

• It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Religious
  • Politics
  • British

• I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Car
  • Driving
  • Living

• 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
  • Power
  • Past
  • Earth

• 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
  • American
  • True
  • Free

• It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.

  

  Donald Johanson

• 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
  • Star

• I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.

  

  Dav Pilkey
  • Up
  • Character

• Pleasure is a revolutionary act in the face of pain.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Pain

• 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
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Past

• If it's a good part in a good movie, I'll do it.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Good
  • Movie

• 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
  • Energy

• Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Trying

• There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• Sequestration will make it extremely challenging - and in many cases impossible - for employees to meet their mortgage payments, pay their healthcare expenses, plan for retirement, or help their children attend college. To be blunt, these families are at risk.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Children
  • Help
  • College

• My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Children

• Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty.

  

  Alex Shakar
  • Beauty
  • Cities
  • Part

• 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
  • Children
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