Louis D. Brandeis Quotes

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

Louis D. Brandeis

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• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

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• I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.

  

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• The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.

  

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• It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.

  

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• My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

  

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• Jose Mourinho and I get along well. I've lots of respect for him. He gives me a lot of confidence. After a bad game, he dares to say, 'We have played with 10 today,' but that's it. At moments like that, he leaves me alone.

  

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• If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.

  

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• All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

  

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• I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

  

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• When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.

  

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• We have a good time and try not to kill each other.

  

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• My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.

  

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• After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.

  

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• Singing has always been a part of my life. I started at Opryland singing, and I realized I could make a living at it. I thought it was something I would grow out of. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. Everything's just sorta fallen into place.

  

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• Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

  

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• And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautifulThat God alone was to be seen in heaven.

  

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• Under the snowcapped mountains of Fiordland National Park, freshwater streams empty into the saltwater fiords, creating a unique ecosystem. This is a heavily wooded park, so the water in the streams is stained with tannin, a substance found in plants that makes clean water seem dirty, though it isn't.

  

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• More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

  

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• While 'The Help' is in so many ways a celebration of these women's friendships and what they overcome, it's also very truthful and very painful, and it was intense for my mom to read that.

  

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• Even when matches don't work out the way you planned, you've always got to stay strong in defence; it's a matter of willpower and intelligence.

  

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• Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

  

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• We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

  

  Louis D. Brandeis