Potter Stewart Quotes
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.
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Know that there's enough room for everyone to be passionate, creative & successful. In fact, there's more than room for everyone; there is a need for everyone.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
