William Bratton Quotes

It's an unfortunate fact that in the male black population, a very significant percentage of them, more so than whites or other minority candidates, because of convictions, prison records, are never going to be hired by a police department. That's a reality. That's not a byproduct of stop-and-frisk.

William Bratton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.

Jim Cooper

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I think everything happens for a reason.

Jodie Comer

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My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.

Meat Loaf

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Michael Brown - when he lost his life, there was more focus on what he had done sometimes than what was done to him.

Angie Thomas

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It's not a born-again thing; it was a peaceful, really, really cool moment where I just felt that I was no longer the dad anymore. I actually had become a son, and it makes things much easier from a day-to-day perspective.

Jeff Fisher

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Stock market goes up or down, and you can't adjust your portfolio based on the whims of the market, so you have to have a strategy in a position and stay true to that strategy and not pay attention to noise that could surround any particular investment.

John Paulson

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Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

John Shelby Spong

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Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.

Rupert Everett

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I'm always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn't have somewhere to go.

Rosemarie DeWitt

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I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

Mo Rocca

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In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but not in cinema.

Luke Evans

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Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.

Loni Anderson

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