Ian Blair famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim, then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means we are currently about 2,000 short.
-- Ian Blair -
What we have to do as a nation, and London as a city, is to get behind that figure and think what we are doing.
-- Ian Blair
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
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Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.
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Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.
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Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.
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POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.
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I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.
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I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
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Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.
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