Harry A. Blackmun Quotes
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
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I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.
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My challenge is to find a beautiful balance: to make women beautiful, to make a woman dream to wear a beautiful outfit.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
