Louis D. Brandeis Quotes
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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My health is fine.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.
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It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
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The 1996 welfare reform law, for the first time, connected welfare benefits with an expectation that recipients would work or participate in training. That work requirement led to record increases in employment and earnings and a record decrease in poverty and welfare dependence after it was enacted.
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
