"The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered"

-- Dashiell Hammett

#Faces Quotes #Beats Quotes #Made Quotes

“Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run operation, which we conservatives know are rife with injustice. But here the end result is the end of someone's life. In other words, it's a government system that kills people.”

Source : "Conservatives are Rethinking the Death Penalty" by Kevin Price, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2017.
“Never do anything that isn't play.”

Source : Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise”, p.24, PuddleDancer Press
“Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is that you're only as good as your opportunities.”
“If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.”
“Being a competitor, you always believe you can come back. I'll be up at 3 in the morning watching World Cup races in my hotel whether I'm in Asia on a business trip or in New York City and have to get up in 2 hours.”
“There is no bad day that canâ€™t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.”
“The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What I object to on the right is the obsessive hatred, the bigotry, and the personal savaging of their opponents, all achieved through an echo chamber of talk radio, the Internet and Rupert Murdoch's media outlets. That kind of well-funded disinformation campaign has no analog on the left.”
“Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.”

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