Felix Frankfurter Quotes
The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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I was a tomboy.
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The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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I'd like to do more family dramas.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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I was in love with HTML and certain that the whole world was about to learn it, ushering in a new era of DIY media, free expression, peace and democracy and human rights worldwide. That part didn't work out so well, although the kids prefer YouTube to TV, so that's something.
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I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'
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If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.
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The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.
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You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.
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The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.
