Alafair Burke Quotes
In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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The Obama administration has been weak and inconsistent in enforcing immigration laws.
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I like to make people think a little bit.
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I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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I don't know anything about music.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
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Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more!
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You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.
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Here's Your Sign Reloaded (2003)
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You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
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My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
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Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law.
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My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
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In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.
