William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.
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My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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May books spread the world over!
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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I do shop online! But I'm shopping online mostly in the home categories – One Kings Lane and Gilt. At a lot of architectural websites, I buy a lot of hardware for cabinetry like hinges and things like that from England. So, you know, for me, I shop at Net-A-Porter, but I don't really shop that much for clothing online.
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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
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People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
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When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
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You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic - you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that.
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No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
