Merrick Garland Quotes

My grandparents left the Pale of Settlement at the border of western Russia and Eastern Europe in the early 1900s, fleeing anti-Semitism and hoping to make a better life for their children in America.

Merrick Garland

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• The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • History
  • Man
  • Blood

• People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Career
  • Control

• I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Win
  • Destiny
  • Winner

• The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Knowledge
  • Moving
  • Best

• The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • People
  • World
  • Freedom

• The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Story
  • Indian

• GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Different
  • Technology
  • Geography

• I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Music
  • Think
  • You

• I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Actor

• I want my kids to know that what I do is work. It's fun, it's a great job, but it's work.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Work
  • Great
  • Job

• I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • People
  • Anger
  • Rage

• So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Trying
  • Free
  • Me

• Incompatibility. And besides, I think she hated me.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • She

• Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Up
  • Art

• You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to do the right thing and worry about the next generation. It's called political courage. And I can tell you, with me, you don't have to ask whether I have political courage.

  

  Jeff Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Political
  • Worry

• I really have to say 'thank you' to our fans, because I think it's difficult for European viewers to find and watch Asian movies, and I hope you enjoy our films.

  

  Alan Mak
  • Hope

• My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • Decision

• You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.

  

  Martin Fleischmann

• I'm looking forward to next year, ... If I can eliminate just my water balls next year, I'll do better. That's no promise, but I'm looking forward to it.

  

  Curtis Strange
  • Better
  • Eliminate
  • Looking Forward

• With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

  

  Will Durant
  • Winter
  • Civilization
  • Honey

• My grandparents left the Pale of Settlement at the border of western Russia and Eastern Europe in the early 1900s, fleeing anti-Semitism and hoping to make a better life for their children in America.

  

  Merrick Garland
  • Children
  • America
  • Better