Rufus Choate Quotes
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
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They are women who are standing on their feet in spite of their circumstances, not because of it. Think of how the world can be a much better place if, for a change, we have a better equality, we have equality, we have a representation and we understand war, both from the front-line and the back-line discussion.
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Let us honour if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.
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There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.
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Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.
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Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...
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Fear is the enemy of logic.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky. If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.
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Backbite, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
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I want the young guys to say, 'How old is this guy that's blocking me every play?'
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I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
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No, they're nice guys. They wear girdles, but they're nice guys.
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For many young women, the dream of independence and a home of their own is a tantalising goal, while a lifetime devoted solely to catering for another person's needs would be hard to countenance.
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My mom is an excellent mom. She knows I am irascible, prickly, and antisocial. She knows that most human interaction makes me tired and that I either scare people away with precise invectives or trot out the fakest, nicest skinjob of myself because it requires zero effort.
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A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
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All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
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I'm very lucky; I have a lot of knowledge. My favorite band is The Beatles, so a lot of inspiration for my music comes from them, too.
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
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The Atonement of Jesus Christ outweighs, surpasses, and transcends every other mortal event, every new discovery, and every acquisition of knowledge, for without the Atonement all else in life is meaningless.
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Knowledge is power as well as fame.
