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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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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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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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
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Labels and classifications of any type are not law, nor are they written in stone. It's up to us to be aware of this and confront it and break through it by doing things that shock and surprise people because they thought we could never achieve at that level.
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The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
