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“The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities.”

“Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.”

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Author:Groucho Marx

“The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert'... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.”

Doe Facts Media Experts Reports Hopeless Speculation Projection Rumor Quoting Media Bias

Author:Peter McWilliams

“Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.”

World Should Inspiration Intellectual Independent Presses Ancient Enterprise Reports Interpretation Literal Extremist Theological Assessment Ancient World

Author:Jon Meacham

“It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.”

Responsibility Media News Singers Reports Songwriters Singer Songwriters

Author:John Mellencamp

“I'm proud to report that in 2004 alone, we approved 3,600 new units of housing - our best year ever!”

Years Proud Reports Units Housing Approved Best Year

Author:Thomas Menino

“When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find.”

Knows Want Should Trying Persons Company Failing Keys Notes Workers Department Reports Hackers

Author:Kevin Mitnick

“As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.”

Needs Reason Today Lying Community Situation Poverty Institutions Inequality Experts Reports Realising Our Community Illiteracy

Author:Nursultan Nazarbayev

“But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.”

People Ifs Care Millions Health Cost Consequence Increase Health Care Reports Margins

Author:Barack Obama

“When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance to wave your hands around, Minority-Report style, and move things around on a screen? This sounded like almost too much fun, with gadget-y pizzazz that sounded astonishing.”

Hands Moving Games Fun Felt Chance Too Much Heard Style Wave Screens Rising Reports Minorities Touching Machinery Astonishing Microsoft Urgency Gadgets Too Much Fun Minority Report Pizzazz

Author:Susan Orlean

“I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.”

People Looks Moments Helping Stories Might Interest Share News Insight Recognition Reports Sparks Gardening Viewers Helping People Hindsight Telling Stories Nbc Interpersonal Nbc News

Author:Jane Pauley

“Written reports stifle creativity.”

Creativity Economy Written Reports

Author:Ross Perot

“To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.”

Knows Men Evil Judgment Bounds Passing Passings Reports Good And Evil Preference Utterance Passing Judgment

Author:Petrarch

“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”

“First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.”

Firsts Art Felt Building Capacity Let Me Collections Reports

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.”

Ifs Thinking Stories Certain Decision Changed Appeals Reports Boss Reporters Commanders

Author:Bob Schieffer

“It's very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it's so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want to hear multiple voices. They want to make their own decisions. And people who see things will report things.”

People Want Government Difficult Voice Decision Internet Reports Multiple

Author:Eric Schmidt

“In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.”

“I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better.”

People Thinking Trying Study Products Consumers Reports Favourite Favourite Things

Author:Maria Sharapova

“The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.”

Winning Percent Rate Reports Cult Alcoholics Alcoholics Anonymous Warlocks

Author:Charlie Sheen

“The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.”

Wanted News Presses Bread Reports Paramedics

Author:Charlie Sheen

“Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.”

Feels Trying Ideas Kids Realizing Shame Majority Add Faults Disaster No Idea Reports Recipes Lack Of Education Molestation

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.”

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Author:William Tecumseh Sherman

“Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.”

World Want Said Choices Depends Contact Reports

Author:Peter Singer

“By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.”

Should Children Home Social Parent Quality Birth Messages Driving Proportion Reports Stability Breakdown Programmes Measuring Good Quality Avert Driving Home

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.”

Creating Faster Reports Minorities Great Times Had A Great Time Creating The Future Minority Report

Author:Steven Spielberg

“If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.”

Ifs Want Writing Has Beens Fighting Evil Reading Industry Finance Corporate Reports Fraud Blogs Filing

Author:Ben Stein

“All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'”

Age School Reports School Reports

Author:Dan Stevens

“The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.”

Should Firsts Party Corruption Loyalty Reports Incumbents

Author:Linda Tripp

“Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.”

Men Funny Money College Son Dollars Add Lifetime Educational Income Reports Economist Funny Money College Education

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.”

Made Different Saws Court Expected Reports Advise Jury Grand Jury

Book:The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)

Source: The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)

“The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.”

Facts Used Decision News Used To Be Reports

Author:Jesse Ventura

“Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.”

World Stills Stories Song Media Style International Video Chinese Reports Online Platforms Multiple Traveled Banned Gangnam Style Spoof

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in the sense of money, by the way. The Beatles are untouchable. That’s just a joke.”

Way Boys Jokes Contrary Reports Billionaire Untouchables

Author:Bono

“Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.”

World Nations United Institutions Meetings Boring Defense Spots Reports Embarrassing United Nations Homework Charter World Bank Minutiae

Author:Bono

“In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme Hunger in America.”

“I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.”

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Author:Bob Woodward

“I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me - to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That's normally how I perform. That's how I am.”

Giving Moments School Faces Used Deals Class Teacher Fronts Reports Call Me Dread Straight Face

Author:Steven Wright

“For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.”

Humans Comedy Minutes Conditions Right Now Happenings Newspapers Reports Human Condition Day To Day

Author:Elayne Boosler

“I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.”

Giving Firsts Stuff Parent Hours Taken News Pages Notes Radio Reports Being A Parent

Author:Thom Yorke

“One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes.”

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Author:Evgeny Morozov

“As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured. —New York, Sept. 26, 2007”

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Author:George W. Bush

“Look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/.”

Ifs Knows Wells Looks Bigs Might Saws Reports Suspicious Salesman Bananas Ungrateful Toronto Des Moines

Author:Bob Dylan

“A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.”

Two Reports Two Days

Book:Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.”

Inspirational Lines Prayer Fronts Series Reports Maps Recipes Best Work Road Maps

Author:Audre Lorde

“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”

War Reality Romance Stronger Reports

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.”

Ifs Children Matter Stories Imagination Taught Truth Is Reports

Book:The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

“One thing I want to do is create something called Ring Around Congress. It would be a state deal and also a national thing, where the kids, as a field trip, will go and join hands around Congress and give the politicians report cards on how they're voting on hunger issues.”

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Author:Jeff Bridges

“Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.”

Men Done Lying Committed Reports Officers Unjust Slander Offence Untruth Knaves

Author:William Shakespeare

“My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to report him for child molesting. He had never molested me, but I wanted to have a party that weekend and needed him out of the house.”

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Book:My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

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