Clarence Thomas Quotes

I often had occasion to remind myself in years to come that self-interest isn't a principle- it's just self-interest.

Clarence Thomas

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• Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Action
  • Intelligence

• Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Earth
  • Class
  • Greek

• I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • American
  • Tea

• Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Creativity
  • Only
  • Capitalist

• I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Think
  • Age
  • Learn

• Everyone knows the link between the environment and their own health.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Link

• Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Mind
  • You
  • Practice

• But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Ideas
  • Reflection
  • Class

• For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Character
  • High
  • Action

• He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • You
  • Ability
  • Does

• If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Future
  • Decision

• I'm a very jaded and cynical person.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Person
  • Very
  • Cynical

• The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • Problems
  • Place

• I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Boss

• This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Best
  • Prepare
  • Precept

• Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Internet
  • Size
  • Employee

• Everybody literally thinks I've had plastic surgery. My mom's family call her, and they're like, 'Did Hailey do her lips? Did she do her nose?' Do people want me to go to a doctor and have them examine my face so they can tell people I haven't? My face has just matured. I grew into my looks.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • Family
  • She

• We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Believe
  • True
  • Nature

• What is more, let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, he who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Time
  • Beginning
  • Wishes

• As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic slave rebellions in the South failed, it became obvious to the conspirators that an actual military invasion was the only solution to their campaign. The merchant bankers of New England, who were directly controlled by the Rothschilds, were no instructed to finance a military attack against the South. Their instrumentality was the already well-known terrorist, John Brown. He was financed by a group famed as "the Secret Six".

  

  Eustace Mullins
  • War
  • Military
  • Secret

• I used to either lose in my first or second match or I would go very far in the tournament. So I've been saying to myself, 'Come on, you've got to get through these first two matches. They're very tough. Because afterwards you feel different.' So I'm really putting my energy into getting through to those later rounds.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Different
  • Energy

• At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

  

  Jane Hirshfield
  • Life
  • Experience

• If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Writing
  • Book

• I often had occasion to remind myself in years to come that self-interest isn't a principle- it's just self-interest.

  

  Clarence Thomas