Louis D. Brandeis Quotes
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
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I'm very self-critical.
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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I am a just man.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.
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If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.
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Muhammad Ali was such an original - his antics, his character, his charisma, his strength, his individuality.
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Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.
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We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
