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 was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.
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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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Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.
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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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Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.
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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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Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
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Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn ("fait fi", Fr.) virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heros who do honour ("qui honorent", Fr.) humanity.
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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.
