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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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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I'm a student of Eric Church, and I say that a lot... I was drawn to it because of the honesty and because it's got rough edges on it. He doesn't shy away from anything, and that's the way I wanted to be.
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Business books are generally read and written by people who aren't good at business.
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I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.
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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.
