Elena Kagan Quotes

In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness.

Elena Kagan

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• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Past
  • Should

• I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Peace
  • Garden
  • Movement

• I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • College
  • United States

• The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Live
  • Past

• I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Future

• Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Future
  • Science
  • Technology

• I always knew I was destined for greatness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Always
  • Greatness
  • Destined

• The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Process
  • United States
  • Oil

• I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • World
  • Future
  • City

• When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • Future
  • Hair

• In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Country
  • Party
  • Movement

• I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Past
  • Desire
  • Body

• If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Future
  • Government

• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Past

• Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Good
  • Future
  • Me

• In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Past
  • Earth
  • Resources

• I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • May
  • History
  • Future

• The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Women
  • Movement
  • Vacation

• A sort of anteneurosis of what I will be when I will not longer be freezes my body and soul. A kind of remembrance of my future death makes me shudder from the inside.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Soul
  • Future
  • Death

• The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

  

  Henry James Sumner Maine
  • Society
  • Movement
  • Progressive

• It'd be fun to do a comedy with someone like Sandra Bullock.

  

  Christian Serratos
  • Fun
  • Comedy

• 'Finding Nemo' was originally shot in 3D.

  

  John Lasseter

• The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.

  

  Jonathan Ive
  • Simplicity
  • Function
  • Products

• In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Future
  • Past
  • Greatness