William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

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• A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • She
  • Woman
  • Struggle

• If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Want
  • Vote

• It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Pretty
  • Everything
  • Very

• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vote

• There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Think
  • Economic
  • Performance

• People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
  • Death
  • Fear

• I am not taking anything for granted.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Granted
  • Taking

• At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hope
  • Day
  • End

• Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Thoughts
  • Thought
  • Harmony

• My guiltiest pleasure? 'Untamed & Uncut'. Videos of people being attacked by animals. Yeah. I don't know why. I just love seeing guys who say, 'I'm gonna stick my hand in that crocodile's mouth and see what happens.' And then it snaps down on them. There you go - that's what you get! It's a wild animal, my friend.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Love
  • Friend

• I've tried Botox, I've tried them all. I'm definitely not one of those people who says, 'You shouldn't do this.' Everyone can individually do what they want. For all time women have wanted to, for the most part, look their best. It's just that what we have available to us today is what it is today and if you want to take advantage of it, yeah.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• Do you know what I like about this? We can actually get to the swings for Alyssa,

  

  Ashley Johnson
  • Get
  • Swings
  • Alyssa

• When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Alone

• I think only facts alone should corroborate this. In order to get the facts, we need to bring about the speedy return of the inspectors to Iraq.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Alone
  • I Think
  • Iraq

• You can’t be serious,” Eve said. “Guys. People get eaten in places like this. At the very least, we get locked in a room and terrible, evil things get done to us and put on the Internet. I’ve seen the movies.” "Eve,” Michael said. “Horror movies are not documentaries.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • Done
  • Evil

• As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it would have been very easy to just illustrate that idea about the relationships between the press and the event, you know.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Ideas
  • Easy
  • Ends

• These facts shaw that mitosis is due to the co-ordinate play of an extremely complex system of forces which are as yet scarcely comprehended. Its purpose is, however, as obvious as its physiological explanation is difficult. It is the end of mitosis to divide every part of the chromatin of the mother-cell equally between the daughter-nuclei. All the other operations are tributary to this. We may therefore regard the mitotic figure as essentially an apparatus for the distribution of the hereditary substance, and in this sense as the especial instrument of inheritance.

  

  Edmund Beecher Wilson
  • Play
  • Forces
  • Explanation

• My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Interest

• The Establishment Clause stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders of our Constitution that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its 'unhallowed perversion' by a civil magistrate.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Church
  • Founders
  • Perversion

• People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existance we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • People
  • World
  • Intelligence

• I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their careers. And I'm not just saying that because it sounds good, I genuinely want people to do well and have success.

  

  Charissa Thompson
  • People
  • Competition
  • Sound

• Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Interest
  • Deals
  • Materials