Clint Smith Quotes

The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private prisons.

Clint Smith

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Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.

Jim DeMint

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All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

Jeremy Bentham

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Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.

John Gregory Dunne

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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I don't know - personally, I don't watch many films where the violence itself is the main entertainment, because I find them boring.

Stellan Skarsgard

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Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

Shirley Chisholm

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I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics!

Tom Daley

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I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.

JoJo

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I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

Doris Lessing

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Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

Constantin Stanislavski

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The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.

Susanne Bier

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Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

Sylvester Stallone

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