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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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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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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Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
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I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
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Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
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Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.
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I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are right, I can really bring something to it as a visionary, a storyteller. It's great to point a camera, but can you tell a story?
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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.
