Hugo Black Quotes
Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.
Quotes to Explore
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'
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Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
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Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
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Bulk collection of phone records didn't find or stop the Tsarnaev brothers from the massacre in Boston. In fact, one might argue that all of the money spent on bulk collection takes money away from human analysts that might have noticed the older brother's trip to become radicalized in Chechnya.
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'She gives him candy. They're probably going to get married.'
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I was at the mercy of somebody else to just give me a job in the years after 'Boy Meets World' ended, whereas if I had gone to college and had when a Plan B, and it was something else that I loved, I could've walked away at any point.
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US and European pre-eminence in science-based innovation cannot be taken for granted. The centre of gravity for innovation is starting to shift from west to east.
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It is important that women support each other. Most of us will at some point get married and have children, and how you balance that really depends on the quality of your friends and whether your friends are there for you. It also depends on what the policies are in your workplace.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.
