David Souter Quotes
For those whose exclusive norm of constitutional judging is merely fair reading of language applied to facts objectively viewed, 'Brown' must either be flat-out wrong or a very mystifying decision.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
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I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
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It's strange when you're innocent, are you supposed to ask for forgiveness from the judge who's ready to put you away for several years? No, this wasn't even discussed.
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I’ve been told on more than one occasion that I should stop reading so much and actually have a life, but do you know what I’ve figured out? People in books are much more interesting than the people who’ve told me that.
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For those whose exclusive norm of constitutional judging is merely fair reading of language applied to facts objectively viewed, 'Brown' must either be flat-out wrong or a very mystifying decision.
