Oliver Ellsworth Quotes
The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.
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I would love to be a role model.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
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My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.
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I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.
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What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.
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The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.
