Dahlia Lithwick Quotes
Even Merrick Garland can't get up and give a press conference in which he says, "Give me a damn vote." We just hear silence.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.
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There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.
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I was averaging about one movie a year my whole career, and that was because I'm fussy. I probably could have done more.
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What goes up can continue.
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Even Merrick Garland can't get up and give a press conference in which he says, "Give me a damn vote." We just hear silence.
