William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes
Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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I had so many faux-parents.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
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We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.
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I'm a great believer in the idea that if it's meant to be, it will be.
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Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.
