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Jed S. Rakoff Quotes

I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: judge
Nationality: american
Birth: August 1, 1943

Topics

Always Out Up Position Grounded

Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there, listening, waiting, that is great.

Great Silence Waiting Listening You

Mark Meadows will fight for what's right, because he understands that higher taxes and more regulations are not the way to solve our country's problems.

Fight Problems Country Will Way

When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacino - they were the heavily dramatic stuff. I always had a foot in both camps. The hardest thing was to resist the advice to be like someone else. It took me a while to figure that out.

Me Advice Someone Always Out Up

I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit.

Money Friends Principles She Cost

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

Age Think Literature Enough You Two

I'm of that subset of native New Yorkers who can't drive.

Colson Whitehead

Drive New New Yorkers Who Native

For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.

Me Motivation Goal Person Achieve

My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it.

Education Beautiful Great Grateful

Good or bad people can be democratically elected, but it is always easy to fight for human rights under this system.

Good Fight People Bad People Bad

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

William Shakespeare

Enjoy Crown Kings Content Seldom

I think I'm just really in love with women, and I love to see them looking incredibly, truly beautiful. I think every time a woman wears one of my dresses, you know, in a matter of speaking, I'm having a little love affair with her!

Love Women Beautiful Time Woman You

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Myself Always Seem Presidency Heavy

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