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Source: Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality

“As you may or may not know, in keeping with the high-class tone of Beverly Hills, our police force is probably the most snobbish group of gendarmes in the world. It is said that the Beverly Hills Police Department is so fancy that it has an unlisted number.”

Knows World May Said Funny Force Numbers Class Groups Police Hills California Tone Fancy Department Police Force Beverly Hills Police Department Snobbish High Class

Author:Jack Benny

“Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy.”

Energy Education Function Agency Department Commerce Redundant

Author:Rick Perry

“I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as if I were entering a department store. I caught three trout in the lost and found department.”

Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar

“So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department.”

Knows Want Needs Mean Problem Eye Sports Particular Areas Responsible Manage Department Being Responsible

Author:Dusty Baker

“One of the things that I have seen change that warms the cockles of my heart is what is happening in the cosmetics industry. For years, they were doing horrible things to animals in the manufacture of cosmetics, and testing of the most barbaric types; today, if you go into a drugstore and go down the [cosmetics] aisle, look at how many of them say no animal testing. I've talked with people who work in the cosmetics departments, and they tell me, Without that, you can't sell them. And that's wonderful!”

People Ifs Years Looks Heart Today Animal Wonderful Type Industry My Heart Happenings Sells Horrible Department Testing Cosmetics Aisle Horrible Things Barbaric Animal Testing Cockles

Author:Bob Barker

“There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific.”

People Stories Stuff Five Couple Hundred Twenties Producers Department Comment Fifteen Roger Twenty Five

Author:John Sayles

“I suspect people channel-surf, as they tend to everywhere. But I'm told that we're not much on at the State Department, so we'll have to look into that.”

People Looks States Literature Department Suspects Surf

Author:Brit Hume

“I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.”

Literature Rocks Standards Research Stones Very Good Magazines Journalism Department Rolling Rolling Stones High Standards

Author:Kurt Loder

“By the time the Deputy Minister presents a matter for decision to cabinet, he or she tends to present three options: ' the unacceptable', 'the politically courageous', and 'the bureaucrat-preferred' options. As such, it is usually best to get down into the department to the person doing the first drafts of any policy.”

Firsts Persons Matter Three Decision Policy Ministers Department Courageous Bureaucracy Cabinets Bureaucrats Deputies

Author:Don Johnston

“I've always loved empty stadiums, none more than this one. It feels alive when it's packed and now it looks like it's resting, waiting for next week. This building has seen a lot of things. Billy Cannon's punt return, a crowd so loud it registered on the Richter Scale up the street at the geology department. It's as if all that history leaves Tiger Stadium tired and so it needs to recharge until it's time to wake and do it again.”

Ifs Needs Feels Looks Next Waiting Alive Week Streets Building Return Empty Tired Crowds Scales Loud Department Tigers Stadiums Geology Next Week Cannons Lsu Tiger Stadium

Author:Wright Thompson

“I think I am good in the department of body language and fighting, and stuff like that. It's just natural to me, maybe because I love sports.”

Thinking Body Fighting Language Stuff Sports Natural Department Body Language

Author:Antonio Banderas

“I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.”

Want Art Hard Artist Term Hours Materials Findings Research Visuals Department Impress Props

Author:Cary Fukunaga

“A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless a good writer goes away and does his thing alone.”

Wells Doe Scripts Department Performers Good Writers

Author:William Monahan

“I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology they use, is doomed to failure. It's that simple.”

Trying Use America Form Simple Function Police Sorry Department Doomed I'm Sorry Terminology Police Department Stop And Frisk

Author:William Bratton

“After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.”

Lasts University Expensive Department Soviet Collapse Marxism Korea Pathetic Cuba North Korea Relics Anachronism American Universities

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“It's not exactly under the radar, but when I'm in London, I love to visit Liberty. It's my favorite department store, and they have a room entirely dedicated to chocolate and truffles.”

Rooms Liberty My Favorite London Stores Department Chocolate Dedicated Radar Department Stores Truffles

Author:Ashley Madekwe

“[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.”

States Whole Government Simple Branches Department Federal Government Coordinates

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding school in Devon and I suffered from dyslexia quite badly, but they had a very good department there which specialised in it.”

Play School Very Good Department Dyslexia Devon

Author:Joseph Mawle

“Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.”

Firsts Shows Running Names Tvs Department Tv Shows

Author:Gina Bellman

“Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.”

Government Natural Harder Department Partiality Favoritism

Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.”

Spiritual Father Belief Pleasure Progress Materials Theory Development Connections Department Thank God Our Father Spiritual Connection

Author:James Anthony Froude

“If you are hired to shake up the system, do it. No one will believe you're the boss until you do one or more of the following: 1. Add a new division; 2. Lop off a present department; 3. Add new people or reassign and reward present employees; 4. Get rid of deadwood; 5. Change the method of accounting; 6. Change lawyers, accountants, or other outside services; 7. Ask a lot of questions, and demand answers by a certain date; 8. Get in touch with key people in your industry or city and arrange personal meetings; 9. Improve working conditions; 10. Update present benefit plans.”

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