Hugo Black Quotes
I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.
Quotes to Explore
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I ended the war a horse ahead.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, overseeing the people carrying the rifles and flying the aircraft.
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I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
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What is this 'mac and cheese'? Is that a black thing?
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I only regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country.
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Usually, whenever my mom would come over I would try and put on music that I thought she would like just to make her feel more at ease.
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Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.
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I considered obesity a disease. It can destroy you from within. It almost destroyed me, and I do not want that to happen to anybody.
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People ask, 'Why is it called 5 Seconds of Summer when there's four of you?'
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Growing up in New York, I loved watching my grandmother Estee put on her make-up - I always admired her sense of style.
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WikiLeaks' disclosures should be protected under the First Amendment.
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I would like to sit down with Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, PJ Harvey, and Bjork. That would be a good dinner in my mind. Strong women. I think I would enjoy that.
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When I was a little kid, I don't remember looking up and seeing so many Hispanic athletes out there.
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I am sure that some day the Czechs will see that what we did was to save them for a happier future. And I sincerely believe that what we have at last opened the way to that general appeasement which alone can save the world from chaos.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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... greatest single programming language ever designed. (About the Lisp programming language.)
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If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.
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I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.
