Potter Stewart Quotes
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
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Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.
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Nothing can motivate me any more than I'm already motivated. It just can't happen. Me being motivated was never a factor. Never.
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I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like 'American Beauty.' We've become a heavy-handed society.
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The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
