Louis D. Brandeis Quotes

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Louis D. Brandeis

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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?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• 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.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Character
  • Man
  • Thought

• My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Movies
  • Short
  • Boring

• The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.

  

  Patricia Birch
  • Time
  • Film
  • Goal

• 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.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • People
  • Friends
  • Thought

• I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Right
  • Bird
  • Middle

• I love women's bodies. I love luxury.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Love
  • Luxury

• Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Theatre
  • Now
  • Dinner

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• 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.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • Done
  • Think

• Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Leader
  • Pressure
  • Division

• 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.

  

  Edi Rama
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • Person
  • Playing
  • Genre

• 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.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Music
  • Why
  • Success

• 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.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Family
  • Difficult

• As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Society
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Time
  • School
  • Job

• I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

  

  Socrates
  • World
  • Citizen
  • Greece

• We 'conserve' nothing; neither do we want to return to any past periods; we are not by any means 'liberal'; we do not work for 'progress'; we do not need to plug up our ears against the sirens who in the market place sing of the future: their song about 'equal rights,' 'a free society,' 'no more masters and no servants' has no allure for us.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Up
  • Work
  • Future

• A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Country
  • Home
  • Man

• Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Real
  • Girl
  • Care

• If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Truth
  • Together
  • You

• In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

  

  Louis D. Brandeis
  • Action
  • Wisdom
  • Lies