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.
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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.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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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.
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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.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.
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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.
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
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Liberation cannot be desired because desire is the bondage. When you are desireless, you are liberated.
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If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
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The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
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'WTF is MDNA?
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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.
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We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade.
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I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.
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When a dish works, it works for everyone, whether you're Asian, European, African, American or anybody else.
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Lots of people commit crimes and don't get arrested. That's not the measure. But if you're going to be the president of the United States, we're reasonably going to put you under a microscope. And Donald Trump's tax behavior is absolutely important to understanding, is he qualified, is he morally fit, is he capable, is he trustworthy to have everything from the powers of federal law enforcement to the nuclear codes?
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I am very happy to help share the great treasure trove of Japanese content with the western world.
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My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.
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Nothing surprised me more, and meant more to me, than seeing an entire class of ninth graders mob Congressman John Lewis at a book festival.
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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.
