Antonin Scalia Quotes

I respectfully, and indeed diffidently, dissent.

Antonin Scalia

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• A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • Want
  • Losing

• Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Future
  • Change
  • Aim

• I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • Sex
  • Same

• I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • City
  • Exercise
  • New

• Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Good
  • Never
  • Influence

• If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Want
  • Fight
  • Possible

• Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • American
  • Hope
  • Give

• To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Job
  • Feeling
  • Know

• On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Day
  • Hands
  • December

• The greatest luxury is being free.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Free
  • Greatest
  • Luxury

• I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Believe

• I gave myself until I turned 25 to make it. And if it didn't happen, I thought I'd just try to find a nice husband.

  

  Katy Perry
  • Nice
  • Husband

• Your prudence, my wise friend, allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Wise

• An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Good

• There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman

• For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • American
  • Mirror

• I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Fear
  • Mad

• Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

  

  Frederic Bastiat

• I have looked up to Emraan Hashmi from day one.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Up

• I was always interested in storytelling, particularly in theater and film. I liked creative things. My mom and dad are wonderful people, but both are tone deaf, so I don't know where the gene came from.

  

  Marc Platt
  • People
  • Dad
  • Mom

• The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun; bang it goes, and everything takes flight and runs for shelter. But if you sit quite still and pretend not to be looking, all the little facts will come and peck round your feet, situations will venture forth from thickets and intentions will creep out and sun themselves on a stone; and if you are very patient, you will see and understand a great deal more than a man with a gun.

  

  Elspeth Huxley
  • Understand
  • Gun
  • Questions

• Can I remember- 'I remember lots,' I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Remember
  • True

• I respectfully, and indeed diffidently, dissent.

  

  Antonin Scalia