David B. Rivkin Quotes

Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their own, nor can they vindicate equal-protection rights of their citizens. The same is true about being able to challenge alleged religious discrimination. This limitation on the states' authority to champion such claims is fundamental to our separation-of-powers architecture.

David B. Rivkin

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• As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Important
  • American
  • Couple

• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Goal
  • Gift
  • Adulthood

• I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Character
  • Man
  • Look

• For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • English
  • Years
  • Speak

• So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • People
  • Work
  • Experience

• One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There's the irony of the films that glorify it and the individuals taking positions against it. It's a very confusing, confounding place.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Responsibility
  • Violence

• In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about three or four years old, I said I wanted to race, but I was too young; then, when I reached the age of seven, my father gave me a kart and we started from there.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Home
  • Age
  • Father

• When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Mother
  • Deep
  • Electricity

• I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Me
  • Person
  • Intense

• This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.

  

  Gary Hart
  • You
  • Leave
  • San Francisco

• Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Adventure

• The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesmanlike habits, supplies their demands.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Curiosity
  • Public
  • Fact

• When they talk about legal status, that's code for second-class status.

  

  Hillary Clinton

• Well, with a subject like this, I'm afraid I'll have to reply. Apologies to minix-users who have heard enough about linux anyway. I'd like to be able to just 'ignore the bait', but … time for some serious flamefesting!

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Time
  • Serious
  • Ignore

• He reached down and tapped Suttree's knee with his forefinger. You, my good buddy, are a fourteen carat gold plated son of a bitch. That's what your problem is. And that being your problem, there's not a whole lot of people in sympathy with you. Or with your problem.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • People
  • Good
  • Son

• (Eating meat) is really on the same moral level as child abuse. It’s the same thing. Animals are like children, they look to us for protection. We should protect them. I really feel quite smug about mad cow disease and foot and mouth and so forth, and I just think ‘Well, what do you expect? People have been saying it for years.'

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • People
  • Children
  • Moral

• I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.

  

  Les Claypool
  • World
  • Music

• I want to know I made women's soccer better than it was when I came into it.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Women
  • Soccer

• Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

  

  David Geffen
  • Money
  • Happy

• There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

  

  Daniel Schorr
  • Men
  • Country
  • Trying

• I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Sick
  • Lifestyle
  • Fat

• Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Church
  • Catholic

• We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.

  

  Ryan Reynolds
  • Responsibility
  • Challenges
  • Face

• Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their own, nor can they vindicate equal-protection rights of their citizens. The same is true about being able to challenge alleged religious discrimination. This limitation on the states' authority to champion such claims is fundamental to our separation-of-powers architecture.

  

  David B. Rivkin
  • Religious
  • Challenges
  • Architecture