John Paul Stevens Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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Truth is a tendency.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.
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What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
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India is a country with huge potential, and it remains an attractive high priority market for PepsiCo. We believe we have only scratched the surface of long term growth opportunities that exist for PepsiCo and our partners.
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In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.
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I think it's important for politicians to have moral qualities.
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In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil.
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The female in question was a sloppy pest
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We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.
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I find the big bang, really quite fascinating. I mean, here you have all these highfalutin scientists and they’re saying it was this gigantic explosion and everything came into perfect order.
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The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how many times I watch it, I still find myself fully invested in the characters despite the fact I know what is coming. I think it was this type of mastery of storytelling and the ability of bringing the audience so completely into another world that made me want to become a director.
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I'm a tomboy at heart. I always like to say that I'm an ordinary girl doing extraordinary things.
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I'm actively working hard on learning to appreciate yourself no matter what. If what someone else says can easily derail you, it means your sense of self isn't that firmly established in the first place. It's an inside job. You're beautiful and worthy and totally unique. People insult each other based on their own insecurities - even though it may feel personal, it really never is. Really. Seriously.
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Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.
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We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.
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The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.
