William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes

After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

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• I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • Country
  • Rest
  • Realize

• I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • People
  • Write
  • Interested

• Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.

  

  Yuri Andropov
  • Industry
  • Modern
  • Slow

• I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.

  

  Sam Crawford
  • Money
  • Lot
  • Telephone

• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Man
  • Hero

• Our best thoughts come from others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Thoughts
  • Come

• It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, it'll cost you $200,000. It's the same... the relationship is exactly the same.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Real
  • House
  • Interesting

• In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Feel
  • Talking
  • Colleagues

• I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Remember
  • Movies
  • Sister

• Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Bad
  • Achieve
  • Tough

• I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • Think
  • Living

• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Honest
  • Lazy

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Singing
  • See

• We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Work
  • Long
  • War

• I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Kids
  • Out
  • Five

• As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Long
  • Die

• When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Success

• It's tougher for women than men in Hollywood, period, if you ask me. As with most professions, women have generally not found equality with men when it comes to income and influence. There aren't as many female directors, producers, and writers, which translates to fewer complex roles for women.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Period

• I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that.

  

  David Talbot
  • Political

• This country does not punish its political enemies. What this country ensures is that no one is above the law.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • Country
  • Political
  • Law

• I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Parents
  • Train
  • Meet

• Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Political
  • Liberty
  • Crisis