Willie Sutton Quotes
Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
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We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.
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Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then when I went on 'Pop Idol,' and the first time I saw it on television, it was really, really bad, but also it made me stand out; it made people remember me. So for the first time in my life, it worked to my advantage.
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Establish who you are, and don't let anybody dress you up or change the way you are, and stay true to yourself.
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I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.
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No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
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Consequence is no coincidence.
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It is likely that many of the organizations reporting an intrusion did not realize the duration, extent or severity of the intrusion, or detected only a portion of multiple separate intrusions during the reporting period.
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We speak in the same voice with the United States because Washington, too, is interested to stop the spiraling of tension and normalizing the situation in the region. It is important not only that we speak in the same voice but that we also act in coordination with one another, which Russia is in favor of
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Last year set a new kind of standard, ... I think it does influence, especially when you consider how few people turn out to vote.
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If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.
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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
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There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.
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We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own . . . We demand windows.
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You're the twinkling light in my eye. You're my shadow always protecting me. You've always got my back, and I love you for that.
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We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.
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We don't have this huge footprint, we are less likely to be targeted as, you know, occupiers [in Afghanistan and Iraq].
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The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.
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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
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You do need more revenues, and you do need to cut expenses. But you also don't want to go in a direction whereby increasing taxes creates a reticence to create new jobs. You don't want to increase taxes on work. You don't want to increase taxes on investment and the creation of wealth.
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Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.
