Jed S. Rakoff Quotes

Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.

Jed S. Rakoff

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• Being a role model is about being true to myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • True
  • Myself
  • Model

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Drink

• I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Three

• A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Time
  • Fight
  • Arts

• I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

  

  Questlove
  • Best
  • Write
  • Pressure

• Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Risk
  • Chance
  • Difficult

• It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Moment
  • Just
  • Very

• I'm part Filipino, part Japanese, part Chinese, part Malaysian, and part Spanish, and all those people, they love their karaoke. So whenever my family got together, we'd all karaoke.

  

  Manika
  • People
  • Family
  • Together

• Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • Nothing
  • Skinny

• All men are born equally free.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Men
  • Free
  • Equality

• Some archives and record offices are housed in your local museum or library; others have their own stand-alone building. Wherever they are, they are a treasure trove.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Alone
  • Library
  • Building

• She walks-the lady of my delight-A shepherdess of sheep.Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;She keeps them from the steep

  

  Alice Meynell
  • She
  • Thoughts

• It seems as if I am making a comeback but I have never really been away. It’s very strange because the whole attitude changes and everything is turned inside out. Now I am seeing the shiny side again.

  

  Cat Stevens
  • Attitude
  • Comeback

• The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.

  

  Louise Bourgeois
  • Trying
  • Mother
  • Girl

• They got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street, where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical examination one day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning.

  

  Arlo Guthrie
  • Good
  • Night
  • City

• Music’s playin’ up and down the blockMostly Christian, Blues, Country, Folk, and Southern RockIt’s our little piece of paradise way out here in the woodsThere is always somethin’ goin’ on down in the trailerhood.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Guy
  • Football

• Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

  

  Christian Slater
  • Life
  • Art

• Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Die

• The best gift you can give to a girl is your devotion, not some Louboutins. But buy those if you're busy, for sure.

  

  Diplo
  • Girl

• That quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Education
  • Word
  • Afraid

• Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.

  

  Jed S. Rakoff