Hugo Black Quotes
Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.
Quotes to Explore
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
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Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
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I don't care what people think about me. I really don't.
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For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.
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Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.
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A scientist can pretend that his work isn’t himself, it’s merely the impersonal truth. An artist can’t hide behind the truth. He can’t hide anywhere.
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I have gone back to some things that can't possibly be done: water, with weeds waving at the bottom. It is a wonderful sight, but it drives one to crazy to try to paint it. But that is the kind of thing I am always a tackling.
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Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
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The Righteous Brothers got so heavy because of the dramatic hit records like 'Lovin' Feelin.' Bobby and I just felt like we were a couple of Orange County guys who were just having a great time singing rock n' roll, and then, boy, it became something else.
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I'm real strong, and I'm also real feminine, and I don't find a struggle having those two things under one roof.
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Routinely, when I finish a book, I think 'What will I do? Where will I get an idea?' And a kind of low-level panic sets in.
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Diane von Furstenberg is an extraordinary woman. She's modern. She's a mother, a grandmother, a leader.
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In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.
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Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.
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I never thought I was going to go to work for my father's company.
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Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.
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Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.
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Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.
