Harry Graf Kessler Quotes
What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.
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Childhood is precious... Hardest part of growing up? Is growing up, I think.
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The building is a domed structure made of white marble inlaid with colourful gemstones in the shapes of flowers. Passage from the Quran are inlaid in black marble.
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Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
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How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.
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In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
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Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
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What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.
