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William Bratton Quotes

Quality-of-life policing is based on probable cause - an officer has witnessed a crime personally or has a witness to the crime.

William Bratton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: american
Birth: October 6, 1947

Topics

Crime Cause Witness Personally Based

When the Bond films started, people didn't travel quite as much as they do now; a lot of people had never been outside of their own country, and certainly sitting in the cinema and seeing these exotic locations - I mean, that movie did great things for India, for tourism. They were very wise to allow us to film there.

Great Travel Wise People Bond India

The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was China's golden age, and contrary to what I was told when I was growing up, Tang China was founded by a man who by today's standards was no more than half Chinese. It was a mixed-blood dynasty that pulled in 'barbarians' from the steppe.

Age Today Man Growing Up Growing

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!

Together Death Weather Questions See

I had the greatest time of my life in England for a couple of years, and Robert Farnon made some of the best music I've ever been around.

Life Music Time Best My Life Years

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

Good Alone Myself Man Me Feel

I like playing strong female parts.

Strong Playing Like Female Parts

In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind, it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism.

Belief Land Dead Fairies Monsters

I'll sleep anywhere!

Dimebag Darrell

Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.

Christoph Waltz

Lights Fantastic Ten Flashing Lights

My live show experience has not been good. It's just because I haven't had a band or anything. I played a show in Santa Ana that I'm just not proud of at all. It came out of the blue, and I kind of freaked out and took the opportunity because it was the biggest thing I've ever been offered.

Good Live Opportunity Experience

Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.

Daughter Myself Think Famous Used

The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it pursues the gossamer and flies from object to object, lawless and unconfined, and it is equally necessary to the development of his frame that his thoughts and his body should be free from fetters.

Child Mind Thoughts Free Body Frame

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