Dahlia Lithwick Quotes
On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court over the years.
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For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting that those aspirations are for the best and greatest things. But with regard to the Negroes in America, there is a feeling that their aspirations in some way are not consistent with the great ideals.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Court proceedings, except for certain limited situations, are open to the public. This is for the protection of the accused, to be certain to ascertain that there is a fair trial.
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I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.
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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
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At the end of Season 1 of 'Cheers', it was the lowest rated show in all of network television... So we turn to 'Bill Cosby'; when he came to Thursday night, he just exploded. And once the audience was there, we said, 'Hey, by the way, we also have this other great show. It's called 'Cheers'.'
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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You have good days and bad days.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
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It's important to understand that sometimes you have players with great talent to score goals - these players are important.
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I get great satisfaction from both business and philanthropy.
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We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all; there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.
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Sometimes, people will just never love dogs.
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There's this moment when kids realize that they have power and that they can use it.
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On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court over the years.
