Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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Music is a tool that brings people together.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.
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The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
