Clarence Darrow Quotes
Clarence Darrow's examination of William Jennings Bryan at the 1925 Scopes trial Scopes Trial Day 7
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When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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I can't dance.
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I am a messiah. Ask anyone on the Internet.
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I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.
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When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.
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My aim for now is to lead a peaceful revolution to remove this regime. I think if I can be in the street with the people I can achieve more than if I am the president.
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Just trying to buy me some time, then I remembered this magic trick - vocalizes the Inspector Gadget theme song, Go-Go-Gadget-Dick!
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I like champagne—because it always tastes like my foot's asleep.
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I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort. So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
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My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.
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If time is money, I'm an hour past paid.
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Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
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The Olympics are an event manipulated into misleading people into believing that we have entered a new, successful and harmonious period in our history. This is not true.
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I plan on making a lot more records, and hopefully one of them will be Grammy worthy.
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Clarence Darrow's examination of William Jennings Bryan at the 1925 Scopes trial Scopes Trial Day 7
