Hugo Black Quotes
I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.
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Panama is a country that's been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It was born out of engineering construction. It was the canal. Because of the canal, the country was born, so the country has been divided into pro-canal and against-canal people for so long.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.
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Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.
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Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped who I am and what my passions are, and of course that's going to come through in my writing.
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There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
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I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
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... when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief.
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I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.
