Edward Bennett Williams Quotes
What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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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.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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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.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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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.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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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.
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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.
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
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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.
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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?
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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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Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.
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The sky is now indelible ink,The branches reft asunder;But you and I we do not shrink;We love the lovely thunder.
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Okay. So you could just put me up in a tree and hope for the best, but I’ll probably get eaten or starve to death.” His head bobbed. “Or … I mean. There is one thing.” “What?”
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Sarah had finally caught that brass ring she’d been reaching for her whole life. Family. Friends. Love.
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What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?
