Benno C. Schmidt Jr. Quotes
Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government - but the reverse... If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom.
Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter
The number one thing I look for is personality. For me, the personality of someone makes them more and more attractive over time ... and for those with bad personalities, less and less attractive. I look for honesty, intelligence, kindness, and a good work ethic, to name a few.
Manika
Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.
Eberhard Weber
Yes, in the commercial world there's room for both McDonald's and Whole Foods, but in the realm of politics, we're told, it's either Filet-o-Fish or line-caught salmon: only one can prevail - and which is up to you.
Walter Kirn
We are, like Nebuchadnezzar, dethroned, bereft of reason, and eating grass like an ox.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
Barack Obama
There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
Isaac Asimov
A responsive administration is tested most at the point of interface between the administration and the people.
Rajiv Gandhi
When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.
Anselm Kiefer
Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I think I live in this mythical world where doing the parts I do is not going to hurt me, and telling people my age is not going to hurt me. And it actually does. It's a bit sick-making but, you know, I can't change who I am.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy.
Chellie Pingree
I know what it's like to feel snobby; I know what it's like to feel anxiety; I know what it's like to feel like busted because you're crazy.
Maria Semple
I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.
Vivienne Westwood
The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can't just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.
Michael Rapaport
I think the past is not important. For every player, for every single player, the past stay there. If you did well in the past, OK.
Antonio Conte
Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government - but the reverse... If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom.
Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
