Mills Lane Quotes

#1. She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. She would learn all she could of the shape and substance of the world, and she would find a way to survive in it.

David Anthony Durham

#2. The music goes into people in a totally different way than words. There's air, there's the sound of words, there's touch, there's music. All of those things have a really distinct way of meeting and entering people's bodies and souls. It's the most beautiful part about humans; that we make music.

Mirah

#3. I have great faith in the jury system.

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#4. It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.

Wang Shi

#5. I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

Judge Mills Lane

#6. Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.

William S. Burroughs

#7. Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.

Leonard Nimoy

#8. Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

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#9. I was born at night, but not last night.

Mills Lane

#10. And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail.

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#11. I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.

Mills Lane

#12. The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.

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#13. But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.

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#14. I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.

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#15. All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

Aristotle.

#16. Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.

Michael Peterson

#17. I think most folks are good folks.

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#18. The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.

Shania Twain

#19. We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.

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#20. Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.

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#21. A dog doesn't want very much and is happy with that. A cat doesn't know what he wants and wants more of it.

Mills Lane

#22. Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

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#23. And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you.

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#24. We are citizens of heaven.
We must conduct ourselves, worthy of our calling, faith in Christ.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth.

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