Benjamin Wittes Quotes
Although environmental groups sometimes raise issues in the confirmation process, environmental protection is not central to the fear-mongering of the liberal interest groups that oppose conservative judges. But the threat to basic environmental protections from conservative jurisprudence is broad-based and severe.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted. I've broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It's my thing - there's no high on earth like it. It's my hobby and I really enjoy it.
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For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
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I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner note and listened to records. My parents are rock fans.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
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Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
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There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
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Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.
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Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.
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I'd like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.
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You were my single greatest adventure.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors.
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Although environmental groups sometimes raise issues in the confirmation process, environmental protection is not central to the fear-mongering of the liberal interest groups that oppose conservative judges. But the threat to basic environmental protections from conservative jurisprudence is broad-based and severe.
