William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes
Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.'
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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The stadiums are like none I've ever seen. I think there must have been some strong competition nationally between Korea and Japan to make the best facilities because they are very well designed.
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I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.
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Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
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Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.
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Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
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But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.
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Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
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My mom always canned, and she taught us to take care of ourselves. She taught us everything from canning and sewing, and dad taught us everything we needed to know about farming.
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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
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There are two outstanding issues in democratic politics these days. One is the relationship with the media, which is now 24/7, and operates with a completely different intensity than even 15 or 20 years ago. How do we have a proper conversation between leaders and country when it's moderated sometimes in a very partisan and inflammatory way? And the second thing is the effectiveness of our democracy. How do we get the right gene and talent pool in politics?
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What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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All eyes, all attention at the federal level, are on al Qaeda and the war on terror. Fact is, al Qaeda wouldn't last a day in parts of Philadelphia. I've got gangsters with .45s that would run them out of town.
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There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. The vices and passions which it summons to its support are the most ruthless and the most persistent harbored in the human breast. They sometimes sleep but they never seem to die. Anything, any extraordinary situation, any unnecessary controversy, may light those fires again and plant in our republic that which has destroyed every republic which undertook to nurse it.
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Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.
