Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.
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It suddenly occurred to me that the hottest tech startups are solving all the problems of being 20 years old, with cash on hand, because that's who thinks them up.
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The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, magnet schools, community schools, schools that focus on career and technical education, and even charter schools.
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Many of you have been reared on the cliche that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong.
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Goodman: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.Kael: I hate it. It is very creepy being imitated.
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With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
