Hugo Black Quotes
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
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We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.
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The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.
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Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're also a good person, your name will be remembered for a long time.
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Why must everybody like you?
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Then there are the 22 million Americans on food stamps. And of course there are the 39 million greedy geezers collecting Social Security. The greatest generation rewarded itself with a pretty big meal.
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Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.
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It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.
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But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.
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I want to party in space because I make alien music.
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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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I've got two older sisters who I'm very close to. And my son's grown up with a big sense of family around him.
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My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.
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The strength of my mother is something I didn't pay attention to for so long. Here she was, this single mom, who was part of the Great Migration, who was part of a Jim Crow south, who said, 'I'm getting my kids out of here. I'm creating opportunities for these young people by any means necessary.'
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I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd.
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Being present is the actor’s job. Being aware of your body, in space, and the emotions that are occurring inside, is essential. Well, quite simply, the more aware one is-of yourself, of your surroundings, of other people-the more likely you are to respond truthfully.
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There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong-deadly wrong–to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
