Hugo Black Quotes
The Establishment Clause stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders of our Constitution that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its 'unhallowed perversion' by a civil magistrate.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.
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I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
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I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
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I adored my father.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.
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On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense here.' And they can show me the screen, and I can be like, 'I know exactly what to do here.'
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Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
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A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.
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I'd been a Bond girl and in Dracula films and 'Coronation Street,' but I was always hunting for work. After 'The New Avengers,' I never had to wait for work again.
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We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
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I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.
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I'm not about anything special - I don't use a trainer or anything like that. And really just eating healthy, eating balanced, knowing what is good and, when you push it too far, easing up and getting back on track.
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Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.
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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
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No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another.
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When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
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We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
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It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.
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The Establishment Clause stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders of our Constitution that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its 'unhallowed perversion' by a civil magistrate.
