Abe Fortas Quotes
Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.
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We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.
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Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
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Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.
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Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed.
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My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.
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There's so many ways you can play one chord progression that the repetition isn't ever exactly the same.
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The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
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The feeling that we call 'I' seems to define our point of view in every moment, and it also provides an anchor for popular beliefs about souls and freedom of will. And yet this feeling, however imperturbable it may appear at present, can be altered, interrupted, or entirely abolished.
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When a tree is very old, yet still lives, sometimes the limbs are strangely twisted.
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Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality.
