Louis D. Brandeis Quotes

Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.

Louis D. Brandeis

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• We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • You
  • Journalism

• Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

  

  Carla Bley
  • World
  • Best
  • End

• Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Time
  • May
  • Age

• Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Beach
  • Director
  • Eternity

• My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Up
  • Job
  • Practice

• I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Just

• Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Health
  • Serious
  • Gun

• Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Opportunity
  • Romantic
  • Scary

• Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sometimes
  • Never
  • Laugh

• I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Perfect
  • Play
  • Person

• Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Environment
  • Creative
  • Process

• I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • School
  • Lost
  • Village

• Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Sense
  • Proportion
  • Realised

• The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a show like 'The Heiress,' the audience's reactions sound like 'The Jerry Springer Show' sometimes. That seems to be a very New York thing. Oh, there's also the entrance round of applause here, which we don't get too much in London.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Sound
  • New York
  • London

• The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law
  • Become
  • Gravity

• Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Home
  • I Can
  • Los Angeles

• I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

  

  Yann Martel
  • World
  • Art
  • Think

• I used to hate getting dressed, getting in front of the camera and walking down the red carpet. It bothered me because I felt like I couldn't be what they wanted me to be. Now it's still not my favorite thing, but I get through it a lot easier because I know that my work brings value to who I am.

  

  America Ferrera
  • Work
  • Hate
  • Value

• Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • You
  • Know
  • Hurt

• I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Play
  • Wife
  • Queen

• We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Why
  • Justice
  • Doe

• Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.

  

  Louis D. Brandeis
  • American