Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts.
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It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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I always knew where I was going eventually, so it helped me to stay at home for three years. It helped me to develop my game. But it also helped me off the ice. Life here is way different, and I was able to get older.
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I am a very physical actor. I generally use my hands a lot.
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Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.
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Contraception is a couple's issue.
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If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I'd rather be an unpopular writer.
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The real trouble with war modern war is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
