Max Baucus Quotes
Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.
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I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.
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And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.
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I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.
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Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game.
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You want 100% and 100% to make 200, instead of 50 and 50 making 100.
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I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.
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I worked my way through law school.
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Why be influenced by a person when you already are one?
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Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
