Emanuel Celler Quotes
My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?
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I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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As a memoirist, I may claim to write the easier-to-remember things, but I could also just be writing to sweep them away. 'Don't bother me about my past,' I'll say, 'It's out in paperback now.'
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I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable.
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I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
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My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?
