Eugene Puryear Quotes

For thirty years, we’ve been saying “more cops, more prisons, tougher laws.” Not only hasn’t it really worked in terms of crime, but beyond that the fallout has been so significant.

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• I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Real
  • Think
  • Today

• I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Family
  • Girl

• A man is what he thinks about all day long.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Man
  • Day

• If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • America
  • Down
  • Burn

• The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Up
  • Team
  • Football

• I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • School

• I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Think

• A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• Act because you love to act.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Love
  • You
  • Act

• 'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Writing
  • School
  • City

• I don't want to be a Major League coach.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Want
  • Coach
  • Major

• I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Ambition
  • Achievement

• No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Religion
  • Italian
  • Renaissance

• Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Career

• I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Family
  • Business

• If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Food
  • Cold
  • Sick

• The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

  

  Plato
  • Function
  • Raise
  • Region

• I'm just trying the American dream. To work here in the U.S., you have to commit and be here. For many years, it was back and forth, back and forth, and it didn't work. But I'm always open to working in Spanish.

  

  Eugenio Derbez
  • American
  • Dream
  • Always

• I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Up
  • Family
  • Heart

• I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Division
  • Republic
  • Infantry

• The more life experience you have, the more comedy you can write.

  

  Judy Gold
  • Experience
  • Comedy
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• For thirty years, we’ve been saying “more cops, more prisons, tougher laws.” Not only hasn’t it really worked in terms of crime, but beyond that the fallout has been so significant.

  

  Eugene Puryear
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