Hugo Black Quotes
It is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.
Quotes to Explore
-
In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
-
In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
-
I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
-
Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
-
Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
-
If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
-
I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
-
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
-
But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
-
It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
-
It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
-
'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.
-
Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
-
I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm constantly growing.
-
As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?
-
I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.
-
A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
-
I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.
-
'I say to the Dublin government, Mr Faulkner says it's 'hands across the border to Dublin'. I say, if they don't behave themselves in the South, it will be shots across the border!'
-
Truth does not hurt, rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain.
-
You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
-
Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.
-
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.
-
It is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.
