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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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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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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My university teacher and mentor Kenneth Arrow remembers me as a student who asked good questions. Although I had not previously thought of myself in that way, on reflection I think that Arrow was right.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
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I was surprised that when you get into electoral politics how scientific the analysis was in the electorate. You can identify on a state-by-state or district-by-district basis fundamental building blocks that behave in different ways. I was impressed in general with the sophistication of polling.
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We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
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People are not born evil, although we all have evil within us.
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The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.
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The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
