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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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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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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You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind the injunction is in a legal-free world on Twitter and the Internet. It's pointless.
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I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.
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In this country, since footballs made from pigs' bladders were whacked into goals without nets, we've played on full-size pitches. Whatever our age.
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We need to make sure that we have an honest, honest conversation and that we engage honest practices around how racism operates in this country. It's not just about people being mean to each other.
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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.
