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.
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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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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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The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.
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The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
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I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.
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The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it.
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My whole life is a practical joke. Every evening and every show has really become about entertaining me. I was always like that. And now I've come full circle because that's what the TV show is too.
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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.
