Jed S. Rakoff Quotes

I don't have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they can bend the law to reach their particular predilections.

Jed S. Rakoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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In 2008, I was one of the young feminist whippersnappers who voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries - or as many of my older counterparts called me at the time, a traitor.

Jessica Valenti

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I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.

Ang Lee

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My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble.

John Updike

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Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

Stanley Crouch

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I remember the great work that Norman Lear did. That was an incredible heyday to be a black actor.

Sterling K. Brown

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I've learned to recognize, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wired wrong in certain ways; the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little bit.

Trent Reznor

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Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.

Tom Vilsack

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As an actor there are times when you're sitting around and wishing you were working, so you've got to just take it when it comes.

Rosario Dawson

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I learned the ins and outs of the supplements business as a bodybuilder. I'd worked with some of the companies, and I knew a lot about the products. Some of them worked OK, and some of them didn't. I wanted all of them to work, not just for me, but for other people, too.

Ronnie Coleman

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I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.

Dierks Bentley

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That's one great thing about my profession, traveling to locations.

Dean Stockwell

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It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.

Bruce Cockburn

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