Laurence Tribe Quotes
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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A block chain is a series of blocks. Each block is a series of computations done by computers all over the world using serious cryptography in a way that's very hard to undo.
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There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
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In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
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I believe in the institution of marriage; Other than cinema, it's the only way to be immortalised!
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Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.
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The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.
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The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
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Most of my influences are from the past.
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We need to do something about the culture of violence.
