William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes
If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
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A lot of people don't want to deal with the effort needed to secure your bitcoins. That's why we started to build Gemini, which is a U.S.-based exchange with compliance - it's NASDAQ, E-Trade and DTC built into one.
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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
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Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.
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If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.
