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

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

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Age
  • Think
  • 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

• 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

• 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

• Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Simple
  • Stupid

• Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Truth

• Twin loaves of bread have just been born into the world under my auspices. Fine children, the image of their mother. And here, my dear friend, is the glory.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Glory

• With episodic, kind of one-hour directing, they always have guest directors come in, so they don't have the same person week after week. You get a break.

  

  Melanie Mayron

• American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life.

  

  Charles A. Beard
  • Life
  • Experience
  • American

• Yeah, it's been a ride I guess I had to go to that place to get to this one Now some of you might still be in that place If you're trying to get out, just follow me I'll get you there

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Trying
  • Stills
  • Might

• There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross, and would make of him a second Moses, offering us the stones of the law instead of the life-bread of the gospel.

  

  Geerhardus Vos
  • Glory
  • Gospel
  • Saviour

• 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