William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
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I caught the acting bug from my dad.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.
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I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.
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The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
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Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
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I don't really believe in cardio. I train with a very high intensity, which in turn gives it an aerobic effect. I like to use anaerobic resistance type movements or exercises. I don't believe in sitting on a Stairmaster or a bike for hours, that's just not me.
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I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
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Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature.
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I'd say that anyone who is going to start a minority program to try to think in terms of a big library and some small kind of museum.
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May we two stand, When we are dead, beyond the setting suns, A little from other shades apart, With mingling hair, and play upon one lute.
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I don't enjoy the diminishing agility of the body!I had knee surgery and I no longer can go do three yoga classes and run. It's not as much fun, physically. But emotionally, it's way more fun. I am so much happier and contented and less agitated - I'm just calmer. So it's like everything in this human existence, it's a trade off - it's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirit. That's a good line. I have to remember that!
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Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
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Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
