Learned Hand Quotes
Like John Stuart Mill, he would often begin by stating the other side better than its advocate had stated it himself.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.
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For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.
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Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
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My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.
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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
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We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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I just feel like people need role models, you know, that are dressed.
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The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on.
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The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
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I've been able to contribute to a lot of winning teams in my lifetime. It just comes from my mindset. I've not focused on me individually; it's what the team needs.
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If achieving the Hong Kong dream becomes a vanishing hope, then our society will suffer. What would the Hong Kong dream be? It's no different from the American dream, whereby an everyday man on the street who works hard would be able to make good savings and use those savings as equity for their future small business.
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For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.
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Like John Stuart Mill, he would often begin by stating the other side better than its advocate had stated it himself.
