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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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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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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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.
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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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In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.
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Do not have any doubt that I will apply the law over whoever is responsible for not complying with the law.
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Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.
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I was a good student until I turned 15. Then, all of a sudden, it didn't matter to me anymore. Isn't that funny. I don't want to go to college. I always knew that. But it's hard. My friends are going, and I feel a little left behind.
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Let us have peace.
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What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?
