Louis D. Brandeis Quotes
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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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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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.
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With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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My collections are full of adaptable pieces: within the energetic lifestyle of L.A., they are able to take you from the beach in Malibu to the red carpet in Hollywood.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was all finished, I would give it to my agent and say, 'Well, here's a novel; sell it if you can.' And they would do that, and it was good because I never had anyone looking over my shoulder.
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
