John C. Stennis Quotes
I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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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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Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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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 always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Social Security is fundamentally strong.
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When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.
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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
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One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
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While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.
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Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator that just floats around in the water and waits to bump into something. I was never one to imagine it to be passive.
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Let gay people get married.
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I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.
