James Fox
James Fox
William "James" Foxis an English actor...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth19 May 1939
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The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murders.
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'Performance' gave me doubts about my way of life. Before that, I had been completely involved in the more bawdy side of the film business. But after that, everything changed.
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People think 'Performance' blew my mind... my mind was blown long before that.
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We don't solve the crime problem, we only control it. And we were controlling it until we let it get out of control.
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We've had eight wonderful years of declining crime rates, and at a certain point you just can't push those numbers further down, and we've hit that point,
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Most of these changes result from local conditions or random variation, ... it's not a rosy picture all around the country.
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Men tend to view violence as an offensive strategy, and women tend to view it in a more defensive mode. When you look at workplace killings, it's almost always men, partly because men will often use violence to even the score.
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We have made significant increases in providing shelters, hot lines and restraining orders to protect battered spouses and mandatory arrest for domestic violence incidents, ... And the largest beneficiaries have been men. The biggest drop is in women killing husbands.
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It takes more than just police. It takes lots of community resources. Hopefully the shootings will be a wake-up call.
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This tendency to look year by year is extremely myopic. There is a certain degree of variability . . . whether the bullet hit the arm or the heart; whether the victim reached the ER in time. It makes it very difficult to interpret the changes.
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They feel they're being shoved out of their job. They don't feel there's another opportunity out there. (They) sense the job market's passed them by, there's no more hope. Why go on?
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People in groups do things that they wouldn't do on their own. ... and certainly, once the idea is planted, it is easier to perpetuate.
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Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be hard-pressed to find a meaningful violence-prevention class in a federal or state penitentiary. And 'we the people' are footing the bill to keep these folks imprisoned. It costs on average $46,000 a year to keep an adult incarcerated in California and about the same for New York State.
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I teach that the foundation for our practice is being able to go inward and disconnect from the busyness of our thoughts, that focusing the mind on bodily sensations and breath will ground us in the present moment. Yoga is about realizing who you really are, aside from your persona.