Ron Stallworth Quotes

We had a cop or two that were questionable, and probably they shouldn't have been on the job, but they were. You have that: a police department reflects the community that it serves, and it's going to have a bad apple or two, but when those bad apples are discovered, they need to be discarded as quickly as possible so the whole bureau doesn't rot.

Ron Stallworth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 18, 1953

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To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.' That what I do is somewhere on the line between speaking to you as I am now and actual song. And the things I love when I say one of those poems to myself - it's a little bit like singing, it's a little bit like speaking.

Robert Pinsky

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I love Maje, Rick Owens, Helmut Lang, Christopher Kane, Felder + Felder, and Sam Edelman shoes.

Amber Le Bon

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In 1997, Alain de Botton published his book 'How Proust Can Change Your Life.' I was charmed by it. I remember using it in a course on cultural criticism for a graduate class that had a mix of theorists and creative writers.

Amitava Kumar

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I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.

Steven Yeun

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Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they'll come home at night to take it off.

Tom Cotton

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Some women say as they get older they're no longer noticed: they disappear. Men, for instance, don't see them. Nobody wants them. That doesn't happen to me because of who I am. Not because I'm any more scintillating company, but because I'm Ruth Rendell.

Ruth Rendell

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My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents.

Rupert Murdoch

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My dream car would be a Maserati. That would be amazing.

Jordana Brewster

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I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic.

Christina Aguilera

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It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.

Bobby Charlton

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To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

Sebastian Pinera

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I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose.

Scott Rudin

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