Lisa Madigan Quotes

I initiated the State's investigation of Governor Blagojevich and have prosecuted public officials, including a sitting democratic state representative and democratic State's Attorney.

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• I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Think
  • You
  • Nation

• I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Women
  • Wife

• I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Always
  • Eye
  • Period

• I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Down

• Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Voice
  • Need
  • Solitude

• The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Community
  • Paris
  • Immigrants

• The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Way
  • You
  • Film

• The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Light
  • Movies
  • Green

• If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Fun
  • Find
  • Having Fun

• I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • Born
  • Humble

• I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Believe
  • Control
  • Government

• The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Trying
  • Food

• Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Know
  • End
  • Presidential

• 'A Tale of Two Gardens'

  

  Octavio Paz

• But so fair,She takes the breath of men awayWho gaze upon her unaware.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Men
  • She

• I hold that if companies are attacked simply because they are big then an attack on efficiency must be a corollary of that attack. If we penalize efficiency, how can we as a nation compete in the economy of the world at large?

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • World

• Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Heaven

• There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • Together
  • Science
  • Tree

• Every job is a blessing. Everyone has to take into account what is available. Are you paying rent, who do you get to work with? There are a lot of variables in the job. What I'm drawn to is things that I don't completely understand maybe, and want to get a better feel for it.

  

  Ben Foster
  • Work
  • Job

• Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films.

  

  Brian De Palma
  • Different
  • Career

• Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

  

  Peter Drucker

• Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

  

  James Mark Baldwin
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

  

  Plautus
  • Criticism

• I initiated the State's investigation of Governor Blagojevich and have prosecuted public officials, including a sitting democratic state representative and democratic State's Attorney.

  

  Lisa Madigan