Dan Gelber Quotes
At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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Some of the stuff that Wilmer wears is bad. And Debra Jo.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
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Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.
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You don't put milk in chamomile tea - that's disgusting behavior! That's not right.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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Anyone can see how if a feared tax hike doesn't happen, that's a positive factor. But even if tax hikes happen as feared, vast history tells me it doesn't have to have the big bad impact folks fear. And fear of a false factor is always bullish.
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For me, it is about using everything that is there and using the gaps in the record, figuring out why the gaps might be there. And then when you move on to the level of what historians said, laying the interpretations side by side. You also have to look back at the documents and make your own judgments. What the record says and what people say about it. A novelist can fill the gaps in a way that a biographer cannot.
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I started working at a soup kitchen in skid row of Los Angeles when I was 13 years old, and the first day, I felt really scared. I was young, and it was rough and raw down there, and though I was with a great volunteer group, I just felt overwhelmed.
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I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do.
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The record in the Federal Court discloses that (the NCI) took sides and sought in every way to hinder, suppress and restrict...(a) treatment of cancer.
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At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
