Cecil Rhodes Quotes
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.
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IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis the Sixteenth, the drums drowning his speech on the scaffold. Herman Melville at breakfast, feeling a sardine to his cat. Poe's wedding. Lewis Carroll's picnics. The Russians leaving Alaska, delighted with the deal. Shot of a seal applauding.
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Without God all things are permitted.
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I really know so little about recording, and I'm learning as I go.
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On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse.
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She's the original good time who was had by all.
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A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.
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I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
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Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.
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"A good director is one that lets you improv," that's ridiculous. There's some actors who should not be improving and there are some scripts that should not be touched. I think it's just a case by case basis.
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One thing that does seem to me to be fairly consistent is that presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it. So most people agree that one of the worst stains on the reputation of FDR, who is widely considered a great president, is the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Likewise, Lincoln is judged harshly for the suspension of habeas corpus.
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If you want to get people to believe something really, really stupid, just stick a number on it.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.
