William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.
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Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.
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International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
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Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.
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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.
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Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
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There is no such thing as a false idea.
