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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There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political system is intractably national. So there is a growing dichotomy between a global economy and locally based politiriscs.
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An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.
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Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.
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Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.
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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.
