William Blackstone Quotes
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.
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There's a lot of power in saying no to big things that you don't want to do in order to say yes to the kind of things that really inspire you.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.
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Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.
