Floyd Abrams Quotes
I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.
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First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and in the end, I ended up with a house full of thousands of objects.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns.
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Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.
