Felix Frankfurter Quotes
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do.
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I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.
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A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
