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Jack Abramoff

"Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that. Some get involved in the religious groups that they're part of. Some get involved in hobbies that are permitted in prison. There are plenty of ways to stay busy. You're never going to survive in prison unless you start getting busy."

Source : "Jack Abramoff's prison advice for Bob McDonnell". Interview with Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. January 6, 2015.

Jack Abramoff

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“You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.”
“I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would never want another. However those are sentiments best saved for one of Lily's romances. The heart is a far more practical thing and in its life is happily capable of more than a single attachment.”

Source : Galen Beckett (2008). “The Magicians and Mrs. Quent”, p.310, Bantam
“There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you.”

Source : "Fictional character: Henry J. Waternoose". "Monsters, Inc.", www.imdb.com. October 28, 2001.
“The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.”
“When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.”
“We all tend to go to extremes; some rely only on their own preparation and look for nothing more; others, as I say, tend to despise preparation and trust to the unction, the anointing and the inspiration of the Spirit alone. But there must be no "either/or" here; it is always "both/and." These two things must go together.”
“It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.”
“I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.”

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