John Paul Stevens Quotes
To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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I am definitely still the same kid that I was picking up the guitar at 15. But, I have definitely learned to be more flexible and roll with the punches. It's such an unpredictable business to be in and it's insane how things change so last minute.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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When Croft's 'Life of Dr. Young' was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, 'No, no,' said he, 'it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration.'
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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
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I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.
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My life is pretty hectic, but I'm really into it.
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To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.
