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.

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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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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.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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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.
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A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.
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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.
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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
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It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.
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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.
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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
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All men are born equally free.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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I remember, after 'Tumbleweeds,' my friend and I wrote 'Pride and Glory.' I was just about to get it going. I had some really great actors attached, and New Line was going to make the movie, and 9/11 happened. And it was over. By September 12, it was over. And rightfully so. I understood that.
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The movie style of fighting is completely exaggerated with over-the-top movements. You'd get completely hammered if you fought like that in a real fight situation.
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I use a combination of all my influences on my albums.
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I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
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Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.