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Stringer is very calculating and he has to be for so many reasons. He`ll calculates the next steps, shipments, inventory, pays workers..all that. But the wicked part is that he can plan murders because that`s a part of his business. I`ll tell you, if I, Idris, had to contract for murders as part of my job, I couldn`t do it because I have a heart. I have no stomach for ordering other people`s deaths. Stringer just gets in there, orders the deed and bam..that`s it..it`s done and he doesn`t think twice about it. There`s no way I could be that cold. I`m also a more lively kid out there, doing stuff and I can`t just do one thing forever. Stringer is committed to his job and business so much so he doesn`t have much of a personal life so he`s more one dimensional. As for me I have a child, a life, thirst for travel, you know I`m curious..whereas Stringer is more interested in being the best business person and his interests don`t go further than that. - on the differences between him and the character of Stringer Bell from "The Wire".

- Idris Elba

(on Marlon Brando) He was deeply rebellious against the bourgeois spirit, the over-ordering of life.

- Elia Kazan

To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.

- Tom Selleck

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.

- Lisa Marie Presley

In Huntington Beach, California, three police instructors lost their jobs after ordering two cadets who were caught smoking to eat cigarette sandwiches as punishment. And of course the tobacco companies are thinking, `Cigarette sandwiches - what a great idea.`

- Jay Leno
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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

- Aristotle

Robert, my son and I do sales, ... Cathy is in charge of ordering supplies, accounts payable and accounts receivable, payroll, and keeping track of workers compensation certificates on all subcontractors. Barb schedules all the different stages of the job, applies for permits, and calls in all inspections. We all work pretty well together.

- Terry Turner

Robert, my son and I do sales. Cathy is in charge of ordering supplies, accounts payable and accounts receivable, payroll, and keeping track of workers compensation certificates on all subcontractors. Barb schedules all the different stages of the job, applies for permits, and calls in all inspections. We all work pretty well together.

- Terry Turner

We want to be serious when we come forward with accusations, as we were when ordering the Iraqis to destroy a very large missile program.

- Alexander Duff

I don`t believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

- Alexander Hungate

(ordering drinks) Lambeau: Perrier. Sean: That`s French for "club soda."

- Andy Gugliemini

There are many times more cell phones and pagers than computers, and once hackers get into a consumer device at any level, they can initiate communication, ... My pager can run programs. Imagine what will happen when your refrigerator is Internet-enabled for ordering groceries.

- Austin Hill

The Supreme Court is an institution far more dominated by centrifugal forces, pushing toward individuality and independence, than it is by centripetal forces pulling for hierarchical ordering and institutional unity.

- Barry Blackwell

Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.

- Alphonso X 'the Wise'