Antonin Scalia Quotes
Humanity has been around for at least some 5,000 years or so, and I doubt that the basic challenges it has confronted are any worse now, or, alas, even much different, from what they ever were.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.
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I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.
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We were far from rich, but I never remember my parents worrying about money.
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Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
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Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.
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Humanity has been around for at least some 5,000 years or so, and I doubt that the basic challenges it has confronted are any worse now, or, alas, even much different, from what they ever were.
