Kevin Mitnick Quotes

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

Kevin Mitnick

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• If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

  

  Lance Ito
  • You
  • See
  • Camera

• My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Light
  • Hair
  • Singing

• Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Experience
  • Party
  • Learning

• 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.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Feeling
  • Beauty
  • Bird

• I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Think
  • Period
  • Model

• 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.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Reality
  • Play
  • Imagination

• 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.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Great
  • Father
  • Problem

• 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.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Perspective

• 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.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Mind
  • War
  • Kind

• 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.

  

  Xenophon
  • Done
  • Understanding
  • Beauty

• Growing up in a house of five girls, I couldn't help but glance at a fashion magazine or two.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Up
  • Help
  • House

• 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.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Long
  • Death

• The silent organ loudest chants The master's requiem.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• 'Is not all this an extraordinary concatenation of coincidence?' Pelorat said, 'If you list it like that-' 'List it any way you please,' said Trevize. 'I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Believe

• Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Life

• 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?

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • World
  • Work
  • Book

• I have the deepest, deepest respect for these guys who are actually fighting for democracy in countries far away.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • Respect
  • Fighting
  • Democracy

• In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Work

• I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Play
  • See
  • Influence

• It is illegal for foreign entities to buy political ads in the United States. But that didn't stop the purchase of thousands of political ads on Facebook, paid for - in rubles - by foreigners.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • Political
  • Stop

• For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • House

• I made a garland for her head,And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;She look'd at me as she did love,And made sweet moan.

  

  John Keats
  • She
  • Sweet

• Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Earth
  • Books
  • Dead

• My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

  

  Kevin Mitnick