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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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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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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After you have a kid you're just so happy to be alive!
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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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One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance to 'name your own price' for a variety of products, including airline tickets.
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There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy.
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We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
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Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
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I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.
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Knowledge is power as well as fame.
