John Paul Stevens Quotes
They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade.
Quotes to Explore
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I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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My teens and 20s were spent lying on sheets of tinfoil in the weak English sun, covered in baby oil. In Greece and France I would burn, then turn a dark brown.
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I want to be Willy Wonka. He has a really fun spirited side but also a dark, justice-giver side.
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Some big banks remain wary of venture capital.
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They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade.
