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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Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.
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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'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.
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Being nice always comes back to repay us in the long run.
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Take this Hercules - this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies!
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You're always growing as a coach, and I am not done growing, and hopefully I'm not done winning.
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Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.
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I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.
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Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.
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Democracy is dead in the Maldives.
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Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
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I'm not the only one who has ever lost somebody; I'm not the only one who was missing somebody. That's what I love about country music, that's what I love about songwriters, is being able to put out those words, those feelings.
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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.
