Hugo Black Quotes
It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly progress thwarted and obstructed by defendants brought before them charged with crimes.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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Practices were tough.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making a comeback.' To my mind, I just went on maternity leave and reported back to work.
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What I do is I do my job.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don't think I would play.
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I'm not hard on myself - I brush those things off - but there are days when I'm pleased with myself, and days when I think I have elf ears.
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When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and the Washington Post and Salon and Slate, most of them have Ivy League educations.
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As a kid, I was creative and unique, and I've had that my whole life.
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I grew up in communist Russia where we didn't have anything, so I'm not worried that I can't buy an extra pair of shoes.
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I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person.
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I eat as often as I can. I'll eat even if I don't feel like eating.
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The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest; I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point where you realise what you're doing is not going to be much good.
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We were so ready with Valerian that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.
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Are the last days near, perhaps? I have forgotten your lessons, prattlers and false prophets, but you haven't forgotten me. As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future - a terrible festival of dead leaves.
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The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not for sports, athletes would be pumping gas, if they were not sticking up the gas station.
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In some respects I have been the most unlucky because I have spent more time living as a refugee outside my country than I have spent in Tibet. On the other hand, it has been very rewarding for me to live in a democracy and to learn about the world in a way that we Tibetans had never known before.
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It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly progress thwarted and obstructed by defendants brought before them charged with crimes.
