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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As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
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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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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years.
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Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.
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Knowledge is power as well as fame.
