Felix Frankfurter Quotes
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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I am pretty self-indulgent.
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Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
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The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I like to look strong and commanding.
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So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.
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'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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My vision and my creative ability is just so broad.
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At my back I hear the word-'homosexual'-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world.
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A long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret, I won't keep it. I'm against secrets, I'm against hierarchies, lineages, all assumption of special knowledge on the part of anyone in the presence of anyone else is abhorrent to me. I mean, I am a true anarchist first and foremost.
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A few words about Sarah Palin: She is one of the most fascinating women I have ever met. She crackles with energy like a live electrical wire and on first meeting gets about three inches from your face.
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It's just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material - that they're worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn't happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second.
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I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that's the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say.
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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
