Hugo Black Quotes
The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
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No one wants to read an apologetic book.
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.
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Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.
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I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.
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Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.
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You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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I am a first-time director given an opportunity to pursue an artistic ambition I would not likely have the chance to elsewhere. The budget is excruciatingly tight, I am regularly abused and I expect to be fired sometime before we shoot. It's nice to see that, at Miramax, continuity has been maintained.
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The country has been patient, we have been patient, but now ordinary Americans are being seriously harmed by this dispute.
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I wouldn't be surprised if many marriages end in divorce largely because one or both partners are running from their own revealed weaknesses as much as they are running from something they can't tolerate in their spouse.
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The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.
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Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.
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Watch out for music. It should come with a health warning. It can be dangerous. It can make you feel so alive, so connected to the people around you, and connected to what you really are inside. And it can make you think that the world should, and could, be a much better place. And just occasionally, it can make you very, very happy.
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You should be a missile and go and destroy your opponent.
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The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated.
