F. Lee Bailey Quotes
A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.
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I'm cranky.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
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Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.
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It's still stiff and still sore. It's the same as yesterday. I'm day to day.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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When your young and hungry and nobody's ever really accepted you because of your color and class, the hurt of your own family having cast you out in the first place still inside you somewhere, you dance hard because there is no other way to live, and when opportunity knocks its more of an abduction than a housecall.
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At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
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A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.
