Jed S. Rakoff Quotes
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
Dan Phillips -
Federal regulations should promote safety without unnecessarily burdening small firms and costing much-needed jobs.
Sam Graves -
I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
Mahershala Ali -
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. Forster -
The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.
Sam Kean
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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
Jack Schwartz -
I love South Florida; this is where I am from, so I don't think there is anything more rewarding than knowing that where you grew up is standing behind you and supporting you.
Bailee Madison -
To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.
Young Jeezy -
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
Calvin Coolidge -
I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on 'Episodes.' He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.
Adam Pally -
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
Fanny Burney
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
Larry Wall -
Habit is Heaven's own redress:it takes the place of happiness.
Alexander Pushkin -
The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley -
Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit... not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in what we believe is evil.
Albert Einstein -
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
Dora Russell -
I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
Sting The Police
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Whoever can surprise well must conquer.
John Paul Jones -
When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.
Nicki Minaj -
I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.
Shakira -
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Judges have to be neutral, but they don't have to be eunuchs.
Jed S. Rakoff