Constance Baker Motley Quotes

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

Constance Baker Motley

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• I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Life
  • Experience
  • War

• It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Voice
  • Own

• Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Death
  • Goal

• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Live
  • Best

• I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Always
  • Acting
  • Going

• Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Fan
  • Disaster
  • Agriculture

• I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

  

  Adam McKay
  • School
  • High
  • Comedy

• The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Intellectual

• You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Woman
  • Crush
  • Fat

• I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • Want
  • Amazing

• But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Real
  • Fun
  • You

• I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Beautiful
  • Food
  • Relationship

• I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Women
  • Love

• I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Think
  • Way
  • Happen

• At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Country
  • Know
  • How

• That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Light
  • Stop
  • Car

• Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Learn
  • Luck
  • Mistakes

• Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Energy
  • Control
  • Most

• I was always a show girl. My parents were wonderful. There wasn't a lot going on where we lived, but they ferried me to classes and competitions all over the place. When I was 12, I came to London as a finalist in a singing competition and I was completely wide-eyed.

  

  Anna Maxwell Martin
  • Parents
  • Girl
  • Singing

• I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • God
  • Bad
  • Guy

• We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Choice
  • Abortion

• I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Time
  • Same
  • Try

• We have, for whatever the reason, disturbed people... who sometimes do terrible, violent things, and sometimes those of us who serve in elected positions are the target.

  

  Jan Brewer
  • People

• I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

  

  Constance Baker Motley