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You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.


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TOM SEAVER We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails...
TOM PETERS The calendar and the clock are all set by football season and the offseason.
TOM COUGHLIN You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my cale...
KIANA TOM Who doesn't love digging into a plate of crab cakes or going after a chilled cracked crab with c...
TOM DOUGLAS Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went t...
TOM HIDDLESTON We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.
TOM DASCHLE Oh, I got a beautiful 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille four-door. No one will ride in it with me.
TOM WAITS There is so much to sailing a ship. There's about a thousand different lines on a brig ship, and...
TOM HOLLAND I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.
TOM LEHRER Tobacco marketing often reaches children and youth and entices them to start using tobacco while the...
TOM FRIEDEN Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling...
TOM HARDY When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float th...
TOM DOUGLAS I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.
TOM FELTON My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl ...
TOM STOPPARD My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things...
TOM BROKAW Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don&#...
TOM HIDDLESTON