Dahlia Lithwick Quotes
The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
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It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.
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I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
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Drawing is but a means to an end. One imagines that drawing can be beautiful-it is not the lines which are beautiful, but what they signify, the sentiments which they translate. In reality, there is no such thing as beauty in drawing, or color beauty lies alone in revelation of truth.
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If I'm in Italy, I'll have an espresso, but I try not to get my energy from things like that.
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The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.
