Clarence Thomas Quotes

Then, as always, I felt morally obligated to advocate our official position, even when it conflicted with my personal views.

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• Fitzgerald was a modernist.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Fitzgerald
  • Modernist

• I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'

  

  Karen Robards
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Intellectual

• I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Way
  • Me
  • Stories

• The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Creative

• The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Good
  • Today
  • Pretty

• If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Small

• I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
  • School
  • Crazy

• But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Love
  • Think
  • Death

• Got your mama and sister dabbing.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Sister
  • Got
  • Mama

• The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Business
  • Book
  • Reading

• I told myself a while back, 'Love what you do, but don't fall in love with what you do.' That way you won't be brokenhearted if ever it gets canceled five episodes in - which has happened to me.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Love
  • Me
  • Fall

• By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Up
  • Education
  • Training

• Birth control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks- those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • American
  • Society
  • Control

• You know what I like about San Francisco? The women are beautiful, fashionable and smart. San Francisco is one of the only cities I like to visit. I love New York and Chicago - I studied there, and L.A. has the same people as New York.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • People
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I have no way of knowing why my career has lasted so long other than the fact that people like the sound of my voice. Fortunately, I've been able to maintain it.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People
  • Long
  • Why

• You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can't get through a 480 page magazine every month.

  

  James Daly
  • People
  • Remember
  • Complaining

• Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.

  

  Bryan Robson
  • Different

• The jingles saved my life. When I got hired to do that, I was on top. I finally was making a living doing what I loved. Before that, it was so bleak; it got so dark in L.A. I was 25, been living there for seven years trying to make it, and getting really close to getting signed with different bands and as a solo artist only to have my hopes dashed.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Life
  • Different
  • Trying

• You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Life
  • Good
  • Home

• I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • College

• Brian Hyland just happened to be playing in our town and that song [ "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini"] was really big. And I got to go back by the stage door, and he autographed a piece of paper for me and I just, I went crazy.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Playing
  • Stage
  • Brian Hyland

• Look, as long as we can enrich uranium and master the fuel cycle, we don’t need anything else. Our neighbors will be able to draw the proper conclusions.

  

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
  • Long

• As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.

  

  Henry Winkler
  • Children
  • Stupid
  • Parent

• Then, as always, I felt morally obligated to advocate our official position, even when it conflicted with my personal views.

  

  Clarence Thomas