Judge Mills Lane Quotes

And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you.

Judge Mills Lane

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Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

John Steinbeck

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I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.

Amy Bloom

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I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

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It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not 'either/or' options - indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them.

Martin Rees

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'Jaws' freed me to discover that a successful movie didn't make a damn bit of difference to my life.

Lorraine Gary

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I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

Juan Cole

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American fundamentalist thought connected strongly to reactionary political ideology as nervous Christians pushed back against liberal reforms on many fronts.

Jay Parini

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I don't consider myself flashy at all. I mean, did I dress like the average Washingtonian? No.

Desiree Rogers

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I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

Count Basie

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I always loved clothes, just not clothes that were appropriate to the place I grew up in.

Colleen Atwood

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I love good TV shows, but it's not what I do. I kind of sculpt my films as I go along. And TV is all about writing, so you just shoot, shoot, shoot what's written.

Pawel Pawlikowski

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I can perform easily; I don't mind getting up in front of people at all. I've always sung and felt confident about that, and guitar playing isn't a stretch, but songwriting is. We all have our challenges in what we do, and that's mine.

Shawn Colvin

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