William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes
At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is the supreme value can, without a fundamental inconsistency, follow the practice of deliberately putting one of its members to death.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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Writers are so important.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
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My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.
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Toward the end of the Olympics, you get physically tired and drained. And no matter how much rest you have, your body is tired.
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It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.
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I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.
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The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
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It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.
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At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is the supreme value can, without a fundamental inconsistency, follow the practice of deliberately putting one of its members to death.
