Edward Bennett Williams Quotes
What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?Edward Bennett Williams
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
Harold Pinter -
It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
Dacre Montgomery -
It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
Saad Hariri -
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
Abe Lemons -
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Quintilian -
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
Ramsey Clark
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
Ted Deutch -
I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
Ed Harris -
It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama -
Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
Nancy Wake -
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen -
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.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
Ban Ki-moon -
When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.
Vincent Bugliosi -
I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
Malala Yousafzai
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With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.
Olivia DeJonge -
In fact, my face has shrunk in the meantime, but it won't be particularly noticeable because it's covered up with hair. So I hope I'm not alarmed if I ever do sit through the five movies.
Ian Mckellen -
My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.
Daniela Ruah -
Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?
Jef I. Richards -
What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?
Edward Bennett Williams