Alexander Bickel Quotes
There are great virtues in a conservative attitude towards structural features of government. The sudden abandonment of institutions is an act that reverberates in ways no one can predict and many come to regret.Alexander Bickel
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
Carles Puigdemont -
To be is to do.
Immanuel Kant -
I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
Laura Haddock -
As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
Jack Henry Abbott -
Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.
Zach Anner -
Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
Tariq Ali
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
Octavia Spencer -
When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
Sam Kean -
I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
Aaron Douglas -
At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
Ilan Stavans -
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
Orson Scott Card -
My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whether it be a Saturday brunch in my hometown Columbus, Ohio. We'd go and hear him play with some of the local musicians.
Aaron Diehl -
Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.
Gary Paulsen -
You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
Dana Perino -
Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
Lance Armstrong -
Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
Rachel Cusk
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I'd have to say Sunset Salsa. Nothing against Honey Lime, but it's for losers.
Jim Gaffigan -
The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
Karl Pilkington -
At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
Malala Yousafzai -
When I shoot at the range, I don't feel personally powerful but like the custodian of something powerful. I feel like a successful disciplinarian of something radically alien and potent. Analyze this sensation all you want; you still can't make it go away.
Walter Kirn -
My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.
Nan Goldin -
There are great virtues in a conservative attitude towards structural features of government. The sudden abandonment of institutions is an act that reverberates in ways no one can predict and many come to regret.
Alexander Bickel