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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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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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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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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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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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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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 had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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I'm not no egotistical person. I just want what I'm supposed to get. Not a penny more, not a penny less.
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I'd never heard of colon cancer. Baseball wasn't even important to me. I have a wife and two girls. That's what was important. The doctors told me and all I could say was, 'When are we going to get this thing out?'
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I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.
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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.
