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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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 approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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What I don't like to see is a lot of chirping and guys just talking crap to each other. If you got something wrong with a guy, go see him.
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I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
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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.
