Ernest Belfort Bax Quotes
From all we have said, it will now be evident, one would think, to the most prejudiced reader that modern English Law, following obsequiously a deluded or apathetic stage of public opinion, has solved the problem of the division of rights and duties between the sexes, by conceding to woman all rights, and imposing on man all duties.
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Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
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When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
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I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.
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My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
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A girl can never have too many lipstick options!
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I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.
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Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.
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I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.
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Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.
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In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.
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Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way.
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What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.
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The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
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From all we have said, it will now be evident, one would think, to the most prejudiced reader that modern English Law, following obsequiously a deluded or apathetic stage of public opinion, has solved the problem of the division of rights and duties between the sexes, by conceding to woman all rights, and imposing on man all duties.
