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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Even when I was five years old, I was obsessed with space.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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Don't throw yourself at someone because of who you think they are, throw yourself at someone because you know you're both in it for the memories.
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In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never served as a unifying factor. Their adherents were equally manipulated by the clergies to regard the others as wicked infidels or idolaters. The centuries passed in constant pious agitation and in frequent religious wars.
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My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
