Dahlia Lithwick Quotes
Taking legislative authority away from the federal government doesn't necessarily mean freer individuals. It might just mean granting vastly more authority to the states--which already have far broader police powers than most of us would care to admit.
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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I hate celebrities.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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I owe everything to France.
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No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... It is a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.
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We have put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenryand said, you don't want the jobs that are available.
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Taking legislative authority away from the federal government doesn't necessarily mean freer individuals. It might just mean granting vastly more authority to the states--which already have far broader police powers than most of us would care to admit.
