"Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity."

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Source : "Torture and the Truth" by Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. December 22 & 29, 2014.

Jane Mayer

#Past Quotes #Behavior Quotes

“I think it's a very shallow thought to think creative people can't do business. I am as proud of the fact that our magazine has a commercial success as I am that we're a critical success. I want people to realize that I'm very strategic in how I run Bazaar.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“Pat Patterson works at The Brisco Brothers bodyshop Yeah, he does rear-end work!”
“You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
“I think a lot of kids get scared by 'E.T.' Sometimes when I do the science-fiction conventions, I'll have a 35-year-old guy with tatts and piercings all over, and he comes up and says, 'You know, it scared me so much I still can't watch it.”
“Where once such devices were relegated to appropriate times, now they've become necessities. The other day I watched a kid come off the school bus listening to music on his headphones, oblivious to the traffic zooming past him. And I can't even begin to count the times I've thought pet owners were talking to their dogs while taking them for a walk when, in reality, they were blabbing on their cell phones. It's a different level of use than we've seen in the past, ... It's becoming more of a full-day listening experience as opposed to just when you're jogging.”
“Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.”
“We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.”
“Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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