Deborah Rhode Quotes
If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on their background.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
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We agreed to do it when I was drunk at his house one night, then on the day I had to have four large brandies - they didn't touch the sides at all. People just got on with it though. It didn't gather a crowd!
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I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.
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When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
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The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
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My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.
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Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
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Israel never meant to take over the West Bank and Gaza - it got stuck with them after the 1967 war.
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The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.
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Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy.
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The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer
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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
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Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.
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Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.
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Men are always good to fools and perfect idiots,” cried Henny impatiently. “A man will run ten miles from a woman with sense.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living.
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Obama's major accomplishment is himself. This can be an effective argument to make to undecided voters and something Obama has to artfully address.
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If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on their background.
