Some cops I don't like - the corrupt, the brutal.
William Bratton
Recitation: by Male by Female
The last time the Diaz-Balarts were removed from power, it took a revolution, and we ended up with Fidel Castro.
Joe Garcia
PowerTimeRevolutionUpLast Time
You have to work at everything. You've got to make it work.
John Catsimatidis
WorkYouEverythingGotMake
This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.
Robert Shea
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I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.
Robert Jarvik
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The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant.
Ruth Duccini
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Back on September 11, terrorists attacked our metropolitan cores, two of America's great cities. They did that because they knew that was where they could do the most damage and weaken us the most.
Martin O'Malley
GreatAmericaBackTwoUsSeptember
As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.
Joyce Carol Oates
GirlAloneTimeWoodsFarmYoung
Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true.
Judy Biggert
NameTalkingSecurityTrueFirst
Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.
Joseph Brodsky
LifeAppearanceKnowMatterTask
My personal feeling is that ultra-high frame rates and ultra-vivid giant screen movies can be like a window onto reality. And if you recognize it as such, you can write your screenplay, direct your movie, edit it, and present it as a live experience - not like a movie.
Douglas Trumbull
LiveExperienceWindowRealityYou
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
Cory Doctorow
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'Democratic socialism' is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And 'social democracy' - a term that better fits the belief of more ordinary liberals who want, say, Medicare for all - is a politically dying force. Democrats who aren't yet sick of all their losing should feel free to embrace them both.
Bret Stephens
LosingDemocracySocialismSickFree
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