Michael Kinsley Quotes
I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.
Michael Kinsley
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When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'
Cameron Russell
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
Rajiv Ouseph
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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
Felix Frankfurter
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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
Orson Welles
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Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.
Adam Driver
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I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
Rachel Sklar
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'
Aby Rosen
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
Gavin Newsom
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And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.
Wangari Maathai
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One with the law is a majority.
Calvin Coolidge
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Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.
W. E. B. Du Bois