Dahlia Lithwick Quotes
The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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I've worked in public education for 30 years - as a teacher, a lawyer and union leader. I've visited hundreds of schools and districts. I've seen leaders from the classroom to the national stage who have been willing to set aside their differences and do the hard work that's necessary to create real, enduring change.
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They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.
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A lot of the people who have come to know the company in the last few years will not have seen this piece.
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Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an artist, you have to do what you believe in. And if you get called a diva for it, then so what.
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I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.
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The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.
