Potter Stewart Quotes
Several decisions of this Court make clear that freedom of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life is one of the liberties protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. . . . That right necessarily includes the right of a woman to decide whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, years under the lights softens you into a cuddly family figure.
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My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.
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I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life. It made it easier to pick out classes at college, like, 'Oh, this is writing classes, that's what I'm doing.'
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Leibniz said, Music is the mind counting without being conscious it’s counting. An eclipse is maths; it’s the most beautiful maths there is.
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You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.
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Several decisions of this Court make clear that freedom of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life is one of the liberties protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. . . . That right necessarily includes the right of a woman to decide whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.
