Benjamin Wittes Quotes
The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency. But it is not a matter of law. Legally, if the president of the United States wants to direct the specific conduct of investigations, that is his constitutional prerogative.
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
Patrick Ness
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
Saint Ignatius
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
D. H. Lawrence
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
Garrett Graff
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I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
Maisie Williams
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Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
Barry Ritholtz
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
Saffron Burrows
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We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
Barry Diller
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I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.
Aaron Rodgers
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If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.
Eddie Murphy
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
Oscar Levant
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Liberation cannot be desired because desire is the bondage. When you are desireless, you are liberated.
Rajneesh
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If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
Yogi Berra
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The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
E. T. A. Hoffmann
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'WTF is MDNA?
Cher Sonny & Cher
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Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one’s mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.
Anton Chekhov
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We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade.
Anand Giridharadas
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
M. J. Hyland
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I am proud of our president, our troops, and our allies, ... Yes, we are fighting to preserve our national security. But we are also fighting to preserve the universal ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Dennis Hastert
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The course of Nature is the art of God.
Edward Young
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I supported the Bush tax cut.
Jeanne Shaheen
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Whatever you are trying to achieve in life, it is essential that you surround yourself with people who believe that what you seek and what you believe in are not only possible but also very probable.
Chris Prentiss
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The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency. But it is not a matter of law. Legally, if the president of the United States wants to direct the specific conduct of investigations, that is his constitutional prerogative.
Benjamin Wittes