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Janis Karpinski Quotes

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

Janis Karpinski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: american
Birth: May 25, 1953

Topics

Me Care Take Care Attention Soldiers

Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.

John Shadegg

Think Retirement Security Tax First

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

Stephen Covey

Family Purpose Decisions Mission You

Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.

Tom Hodgkinson

Window Stand Remember You Look Bend

I would lose straight away if I went on 'American Idol.'

Tom DeLonge

American Lose Away Idol Would

When I was girl, you could still get certain jobs if you didn't have a diploma.

Rita Moreno

Girl You Get Still Diploma Certain

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

Michel de Montaigne

Strength Mind Beyond Never Within

I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile.

Jason Ritter

Smile Tired Smiling Kind Never Guy

I went to all the shops in the village looking for work. I didn't have any qualifications. I ended up working in a grocery shop for about a year and then went to a confectioner, where I earned three pounds 10 shillings. I gave the money to my mother and father, but I also managed to save five shillings a week.

Bonnie Tyler

Work Father Mother Money Looking Up

How many years and how many pictures does it take to win the confidence of Paramount? How many years before my fellow workers say, 'I know he is doing his best?'

Preston Sturges

Confidence Best Win Doing Pictures

Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, diligently making notes or taping what is said, and they perform their interviews to fit a calculated script. The truth, alas, is always elusive.

Pete Hamill

Truth Lie People Face You Said

Israel has a problem not because of the perception that the entire world is against us, but because of the government's problematic policies.

Tzipi Livni

Government World Perception Problem

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Richard P. Feynman

Past Result Observation Become Real