Louis D. Brandeis Quotes
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.
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I believe in the power of weakness.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
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I thought I wanted to be a clown, because what would be better than making people laugh?
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The allegiance of the citizen, in the only sense in which the word can be tolerated in a republic, is due to the law. What idea other men may have of a law higher than the supreme law, I know not. Like the notion of the Stoics concerning Fate, it is perfectly incomprehensible.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
