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• The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • History
  • Society
  • Trust

• I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Expand

• I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Liberation

• Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Family
  • Animal
  • Japanese

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Real
  • Think

• My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Book
  • Speed

• There is a lot more to me than just being a crazy fighter.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Crazy
  • More
  • Fighter

• I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Look
  • Grow
  • Portrait

• I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • World
  • Employer

• Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Perfection
  • Got
  • Bitcoin

• The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

  

  Sam Ervin
  • Past
  • Way
  • Privilege

• I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Feel
  • Speak

• Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Work
  • Proud
  • Work Hard

• If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Cool

• Nudity in a picture is such a delicate thing, and it is so rarely right. But it can be right if it's done by people with beautiful vision and if it becomes part of the melody of the situation. The body, after all, is a beautiful and secret thing.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• O my son, thy lips still smell of milk, and thy heart should go out to pleasure. But the days are grave, and Iran looketh unto thee in its danger.

  

  Ferdowsi
  • Heart
  • Son

• ... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Strong

• My sister and I had a tough childhood, but my mom always said that travelling is the most beautiful thing you can do in your life. She always showed us the globe and gifted me an atlas.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • She
  • Beautiful

• On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Internet
  • Information

• The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Done
  • Cost
  • Stability

• The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Free
  • Feeling
  • Light

• One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

  

  Stewart Brand
  • Free
  • Information
  • Cost