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Roy Barnes Quotes

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 11, 1948

Topics

Time People Law Tough Long Obey

I've never even seen a Cheech and Chong movie.

Never Seen Even Movie

You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. What I'm saying is that I don't think you should know you're in a movie. I don't like it when actors are winking at the audience and saying, 'Right, isn't this funny? Are you with me?'

Funny Character Me Saying Think You

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.

Family Father Mother Busy Trying Up

I have played Polynesian. I have played an Arabian girl. I played an East Indian girl. And what was so confusing about that, which I mention in my book, is that I assumed I had to have an accent. Nobody said anything, so I made up what I call the universal ethnic accent, and they all sounded alike. It didn't matter who I was playing.

Girl Book Nobody Said Matter Up

I got my agents right out of school, and I booked my first commercial right away. It was always enough to not quit and do something else.

Robin Lord Taylor

School Enough Quit First Right Out

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Yourself You Back Want Places Check

I obviously did not volunteer to go to Afghanistan solely to protect the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.

Go Protect Volunteer Afghanistan Did

I like meeting and connecting with readers.

Christina Baker Kline

Meeting Connecting Like Readers

Google was the right place to pioneer robot cars.

Anthony Levandowski

Place Google Robot Right Right Place

People never know what's going on while it's happening. You think, during the Renaissance, people called it 'The Renaissance'?

People Think You Know Never Going

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Funny Humor Comedy Serious Way

The best mirror is an old friend.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Friend Mirror Best Old Old Friend

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