Cliff Sloan Quotes
There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
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Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
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I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
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Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.
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When meetings are the norm - the first resort, the go-to tool to discuss, debate, and solve every problem - they no longer work.
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Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.
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When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.
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What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.
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There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.
