Ramsey Clark Quotes
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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I write in a small office at home.
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike. People flee wars to escape death, they migrate to improve their fortunes, they build new lives in foreign lands, they adapt to extreme hardship….
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The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.
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I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
