Louis D. Brandeis Quotes
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Quotes to Explore
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.
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I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.
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Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.
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Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.
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On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.
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Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.
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I started out doing musicals.
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My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs be damned for they bind no wounds. Yet, I reasoned, if my photographs could cause compassionate horror within the viewer, they might also prod the conscience of that viewer into taking action.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic.
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In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
