Francis Bacon Quotes
Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
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I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'
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I'm confident, motivated.
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John Schneider's cool. I mean, he is the epitome of cool. To be that confident without any chip on his shoulder is very hard to do, and that man just has it. To be that well-known and still be so personable and social, it's just fantastic.
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Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
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When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.
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As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.
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It's something I am confident about. It gives me an adrenaline rush - who wouldn't want want to wear beautiful clothes and jewellery and look wonderful - it's a dream job for many.
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I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin.
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I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.
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Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
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I'm confident in the fighter I am, and I have nothing to worry about.
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I'm kind of a self-aware and confident person.
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Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.
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I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.
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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
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One time, on Marine One, the president asked me my opinion. I had a flashback to being at the kitchen table with my dad. That dominant male figure set me up for being confident to express myself with precision and persuasion.
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I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial independence. And it's always, I think, problematic when an unpopular decision triggers a recall election. Because it sends a disempowering message to judges. On the other hand, it's the only way that voters have to rein in someone whose views are really so out of the mainstream of public opinion that they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judicial process.
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Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.
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I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.
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Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
