"In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke--could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn, might produce more hopeful and well-disciplined kids."

-- David Von Drehle

#Book Quotes #Kids Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.”

Source : "Geek Cheek" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. May 1, 1996.
“I would say if you are having a tough time in your life, then going to a club and getting laughs, it does make you feel better for that hour and a half show. It gets your mind off of it.”
“Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.”
“All I know is that once JuliÃ¡n told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.”
“Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it.”
“she lets him see how afraid she is to be without him and he soon comes to feel as though he has a 100 percent hold on her. This is often the point when women begin to complain: â€œHe doesnâ€™t make enough time for me. He isnâ€™t as romantic as he used to be.”
“I guess you heard about this; the U.S. Olympic Committee is coming under fire after it was revealed that the uniforms for Team USA to be worn in the opening ceremony were made in China. Turns out they were made by some of the same kids who could beat us in gymnastics. That's the worst part.”
“When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I just went to see the location of Michael Chabon's novel. Once there, I became aware that Pittsburgh is a "wonder boy," in the narrow sense of the term, just as the human characters are.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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