Antonin Scalia Quotes
Life is too short to pursue every human act to its most remote consequences; 'for want of a nail, a kingdom was lost' is a commentary on fate, not the statement of a major cause of action against a blacksmith.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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My life is not perfect.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
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Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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Their problem was how to adapt English principles and precedents to the new conditions of American life, and they solved it with singular discretion. They put as many obstacles as they could contrive, not in the way of the people's will, but of their whim.
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Living is not breathing but doing.
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I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can.
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Little Zac had it easy – but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.
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Life is too short to pursue every human act to its most remote consequences; 'for want of a nail, a kingdom was lost' is a commentary on fate, not the statement of a major cause of action against a blacksmith.
