William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes

Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

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• Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Evolution

• I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Kind

• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Pregnant
  • Even

• Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Bad
  • Working
  • Considered

• Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Strong
  • Rising
  • Personage

• In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Experience
  • Writer
  • Letter

• My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Done
  • Day
  • Opinion

• I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'

  

  Frances McDormand
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • World
  • Movie
  • You

• I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Always
  • Goals
  • Put

• The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • You
  • Law
  • Capitalism

• I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

  

  Kaskade
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Better
  • Look

• All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Wind
  • Hollywood
  • Disaster

• Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Strong
  • Years
  • Through

• I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Never
  • Golf
  • Will

• I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Existence
  • Wealth

• There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the third baseman hug the foul line. The idea was to build an infield wall against a known right-handed pull hitter.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Time
  • Me
  • Wall

• I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Wealth plays out in the political sphere in all kinds of ways, often personally. Can Hillary Clinton represent the interests of working people when she and her husband have taken so much money from Wall Street? Was Mitt Romney's private-equity business too ruthless with workers?

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • Money
  • Business

• Having your picture taken in the street and put in a magazine won't change your life.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Life
  • Taken
  • Picture

• I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I went to art school and tried a bunch of different things, but I knew I wanted to do something in the visual arts. And I'd always been around my dad's film sets, so the interest was there. But I didn't have the guts to say, "I want to be a director," especially coming from that family.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Different
  • School
  • Art

• Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Community
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