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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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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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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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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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 love 'Glee.'
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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
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The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization. When a civilization becomes so standardized that the individual can no longer make an imprint on it, then that civilization is dying. The mass mind has taken over and another set of national glories is heading for history's scrap heap.
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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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You want to be a country that creates food stamps? In which case, frankly, Obama is an enormous success - the most successful food stamp president in American history. Or do you want to be a country that creates jobs?
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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.
