Department Quotes - Page 38

• So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.

  James Earl Jones

  Drama, Years, Junior Year

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Mean, Artist, Thinking

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• Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.

  Denis Leary

  Fire, America, People

  "Now on DVD: Denis Leary's documentary 'Burn' shows unique dangers Detroit firefighters face" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2013.

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• Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy or a short guy, or anybody not passing the test in a life-or-death job, leads to friction.

  Denis Leary

  Jobs, New York, Fire

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• My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Airports, Hotel Lobby, Freedom Of Speech

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.189, Vintage

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• I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of America.

  Sheila Jackson Lee

  Thinking, America, People

  Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 19, 2012.

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• A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

  A. J. Liebling

  Principles, Louisiana, Politician

  Abbott Joseph Liebling (1970). “The Earl of Louisiana”, p.19, LSU Press

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• Governments are out of control, irresponsible, never have enough money, never tighten their own belts, and when they are forced to, they always threaten to shut down police departments and teachers and all these things.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Teacher, Government, Police

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• A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.

  John Lydon

  People, Soul, Records

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• A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Writing, Thinking

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• How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive?

  Simon Mainwaring

  Educational, Positive Experiences, Share

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• When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.

  Hilary Mantel

  Clothes, Should Have, Size

  Hilary Mantel (2004). “Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir”, p.197, Macmillan

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• Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.

  George R. R. Martin

  Summer, Sports, Baseball

  Interview with Adam Duerson, www.si.com. May 31, 2012.

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• We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

  Dave Matthews

  Kindness, Would Be, Active

  "Dave Matthews makes (and talks) history". Interview with Kareen Wynter and Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.

  Marty Meehan

  Views, United States, Polls

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• Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens.

  John Mica

  Mean, Gun, Rights

  "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", votesmart.org. June 27, 2012.

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• I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

  Arthur Miller

  Enemy, Culture, States

  The New York Herald Tribune, March 31, 1954.

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• 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.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Keys, Trying, Want

  "Q & A / Kevin Mitnick / Ex-hacker shares secrets of deception / Mitnick says 'social engineers' play big role in cyber attacks". Interview With Verne Kopytoff, www.sfgate.com. October 28, 2002.

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• When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Jobs, Home, College

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• By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

  James Monroe

  War, Men, May

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• The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing.

  Michael Moore

  Justice, Needs, Able

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• I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.

  Alanis Morissette

  Fashion, Wall, Design

  "Alanis Morissette on Her New Album, Changing Diapers, and Celebrity: 'Fame for Me Was Relatively Hollow'". Interview with Marc Spitz, www.vanityfair.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.

  Robert Mueller

  Fbi Agents, Squad, Police

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• The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Cfo, Engineering

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

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• In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Organization, Justice, Support

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