Felix Frankfurter Quotes
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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The Bible is filled with intriguing stories about complex and flawed human beings who ponder immense moral questions and engage in colossal clashes with evil.
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I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.
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The Russian economy is a one-trick pony. They're totally focused on natural gas and oil.
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'Duch' means spirit and 'ovny' is kind of the adjectival ending, so the word itself means spiritual. It's my father's name, obviously. He took the 'H' out because he was tired of people saying Duchovny, but he never did it legally. When my parents divorced, my mother, to my father, put the 'H' back in.
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I got myself good this morning too. I did my pushups in the nude, I didn't see the mouse trap.
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No court can make time stand still.
