Kevin Mitnick Quotes
My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
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I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.
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I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.
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I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective.
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There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.
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For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
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Growing up in a house of five girls, I couldn't help but glance at a fashion magazine or two.
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The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.
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The silent organ loudest chants The master's requiem.
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Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.
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Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?
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I have the deepest, deepest respect for these guys who are actually fighting for democracy in countries far away.
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In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.
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'The Sixth Sense' was a very enjoyable, successful movie despite the fact that there were plenty of people, including myself, who saw the ending coming.
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
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I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.
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There are fires, vast and endless, that burn in me for you. And I will carry them until you are ready to walk through the Flames of me.
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Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
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My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
