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I think most folks are good folks.
Don't write to sell, write to tell.
I have great faith in the jury system.
I was born at night, but not last night.
Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper.
If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.
To truly find yourself, touch as many lives as possible!
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
If you appreciate the small things, you're likely to get the big ones.
Make life easier by living in the present and believing in the future.
We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.
And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you.
I often wish that folks would use Twitter for something more than sharing quotes
My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.
My view on feng shui: don’t put your bed in front of the door because you won’t get in.
It’s not great when your husband thinks the only guy who can talk to you, is some other guy.
Some people like milk, but I would never drink anything you have to stroke out of an animal.
I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.
The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.
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.
But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.
The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.
You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not.
I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.
The objective of a referee is not to get mentioned. I tell a lot of young referees that not being mentioned is king. If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game.
Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.
Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.
Coaches do so much research about a referee because they believe refereeing is such a crucial part of the game that the result may hinge on what we say or do. They probably know more about me than I know myself!
I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is - in your own mind - of material importance and what isn't, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be.
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.
I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.
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.
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.
It was the economic benefit,You make a comfortable living in public service and you get a fairly comfortable retirement, if you watch your pennies and you're not extravagant. But in television, if a show goes, you make a substantial amount of money. So, economically it just didn't make sense for me not to.