Merrick Garland Quotes
As my parents taught me, by both words and deeds, a life of public services is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he's serving.
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I won't join another band again.
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My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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People come up and say, 'Hey, I know you!' They're middle-aged women and big burly guys. They say, 'Don't tell anyone, but I watch Felicity, and I think it's great.'
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In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.
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If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $500, and for every contribution made to a child's account below the national median income, we match it dollar for dollar - the federal government will.
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I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
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Remember, MTV would only show white videos for a long time. Can you imagine that? That was the '80s when that happened. It's hard to even think of that now, you know?
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
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I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.
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A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.
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It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.
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Yeah, I know those drugs got you held captive I can see it in your eyes, they got your mind captured Some say it's fun to get the high but I am not laughing
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
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To face this fact is to encounter one of the most demanding challenges in thinking about history: explaining how people in the past could have failed to see what seems so clear to us in retrospect. This is an imperative task but also a delicate and exacting one. On one hand, explanation can shade into excuse, on the other hand, passing judgment on the past can be a form of self-congratulation in the present.
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As my parents taught me, by both words and deeds, a life of public services is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he's serving.
