Felix Frankfurter Quotes
For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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A prime time to catch yourself putting on your personality is in the moments between sleeping and waking.
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I've always loved what I'd term 'dark fiction' writers, everyone from J. G. Ballard to Mervyn Peake and Philip Pullman. I'm not sure it's a genre, but it's what I like best.
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We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.
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I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music was always in the house and the car. They threw in some Dolly Parton, too.
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For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.
