David Boies Quotes

The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.

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• Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Fan
  • Matt Morrison
  • Lea Michele

• I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Seen

• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• I've dealt with a lot in my life.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Dealt

• Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
  • Attention
  • Weird

• When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Green

• The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Say
  • Give
  • Physician

• Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.

  

  Adam Kinzinger
  • Party
  • Day
  • Brand

• The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
  • Business
  • Lesson

• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Important
  • Business
  • True

• Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • History
  • Mistake
  • United

• Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe

• After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Study
  • Medicine
  • Biology

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'

  

  Zach LaVine
  • She
  • Remember
  • Myself

• Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Work
  • Enjoy

• I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Father
  • Think
  • Myself

• I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Play
  • Wants
  • Physical

• There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Men
  • Book
  • Dust

• It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases - tuberculosis, fevers, all that - and it somehow turned into this charmed life. I don't know exactly how.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dying

• I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

  

  Penelope Wilton
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.

  

  Keri Russell
  • Time
  • Loner

• I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Broken
  • Brave
  • Darling

• The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.

  

  David Boies
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  • Purpose
  • Decision