David Von Drehle Quotes
In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke--could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn, might produce more hopeful and well-disciplined kids.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
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I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.
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I am very grateful for the dedicated work and intellectual contributions of generations of talented postdocs, students and research assistants without whom none of the work from my laboratory would have been possible.
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Red, electric blue - the only color I don't wear is green, which I still don't wear. I wear certain color greens, but I have such yellow skin so I always like to wear bold colors.
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At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.
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Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.
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I've always been able to shoot the ball, so it's just about continuing to work on your shot and shoot the ball. That's the main thing. Got to get those shots up.
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When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
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I had this lump in my throat, but I couldn't even cry. I thought, I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. I was just sitting there in my car that I was two months behind on payments for, knowing I didn't have money for rent.
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The truth is overrated.
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Women are both talented and innovative thinkers and tend to use computer science as a tool to solve larger problems.
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I understand that people have aspirations, and everyone wants to play the lead role. But, I do believe that one must climb the ladder from the first step.
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I want people talking about me when I'm gone.
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We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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A book is never finished; it's abandoned.
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Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think.
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In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke--could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn, might produce more hopeful and well-disciplined kids.
