Catharine Arnold Quotes
In the words of Euripides, ‘those whom the Gods wish to destroy, first they make mad’.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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There is a lot of talk in conservative circles about judicial modesty and deferring to the political branches. That view of judging often overlooks the important role that courts have in protecting people's rights. But if there was ever a time to defer, it is when Congress is protecting voting rights in the exact way the Constitution directs it to.
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My hair was long with a fringe, and people would make jokes, calling me Britney and Lady Gaga.
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We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
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The partaker partakes of that which changes him. The child that touches takes character from the thing, The body, it touches. The captain and his menAre one and the sailor and the sea are one.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.
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True love is frozen in time I'll be your champion and you'll be mine I will remember you So please remember I will remember you
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If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.
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I can't write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don't even call it research; it's reporting. That process is very important to the granularity of my writing. I have to know what the reality is so I can be more convincing in the writing.
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I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.
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I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.
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This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood.
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A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger cultural history and memory.
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I think that I have never had the confidence to really aggressively get behind myself, and so what I do tends to be - I don't want to say 'sheepish,' but there is a sheepish quality to my ability to toot my own horn. I'm very Midwestern in that way. So I just do what I like to do, and what I think I do well is not very loud, necessarily.
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I always imagine that if I met Dr. Seuss, he would be very similar to Crispin Glover.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level.
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We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle.
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TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?
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In the words of Euripides, ‘those whom the Gods wish to destroy, first they make mad’.
