Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
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Most computers today have built in backup software.
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A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
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Isn't that what our job to do is right there in media to discuss what politicians are doing so they stop doing it.
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I think it's great when dramatic actors do lighter, funny roles.
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I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.
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The reality is that companies are full of things that are left unspoken. And even when they are out in the open, the CEO is almost always the last to know.
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
