Jack Henry Abbott Quotes
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice.
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Yeah, trust is earned. To a degree, it just comes with time.
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American servicewomen will continue to be viewed as second-class warriors if leaders push them to take up the customs of countries where women are second-class citizens.
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The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security.
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I believe anything has to be possible. You have to be able to face any problem that comes along and unravel it into a solution.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
