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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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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On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.
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I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.
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Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.
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I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.
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The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew.
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If there were any in China and Russia in this connection, though we both made some compromises. But these were compromises between friendly countries. I think it is almost impossible to achieve such compromise in other ways.
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But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
