William Deresiewicz Quotes
People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.
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Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
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Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.
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If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.
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Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy...
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I think there's an innocence to me.
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It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.
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While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.
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People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.
