Walter Wriston Quotes
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
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I'm a big Germs fan; most people are.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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Corruption does not so much rot the masses: it poisons Congress. Credit-Mobilier and money rings are not housed under thatched roofs: they flaunt at the Capitol. As usual in chemistry, the scum floats uppermost.
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The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.
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Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.
