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Clarence Darrow Quotes

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Clarence Darrow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: lawyer
Nationality: american
Birth: April 18, 1857 - March 13, 1938

Topics

Business Law Seriously Everything

I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit - I love it.

Jennifer Nettles

Love Friend Music Culture New York

I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.

Age Boat Remember Early Sailing

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Football Poetry Now Kind Way Thanks

I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people's respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people's collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends.

Respect People Win Game Think Play

That's the thing I'm worst at: resting. I have to be forced to do it. Sometimes I think of loopholes. 'Oh, I'm just going for a walk, up a dune that's 45 degrees, but I'm walking, so it's not a workout.'

Walk Think Walking Sometimes Resting

Obama's not down for the civil rights struggle, and he certainly wasn't down for the apartheid struggle, but he's clearly gonna take advantage of it and insert himself in such a way as to make it look like he is single-handedly responsible for apartheid going by the wayside.

Struggle Look Down Way Civil Rights

Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.

Confidence Memories Optimism Sixties

As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.

Change Technology Children Parents

My parents are divorced, and that was the last thing I wanted for myself. I waited until I was 36 to propose, and I'm really proud of that.

Myself Parents Proud Last Wanted

I love kids. I wanted more. I have two, but I would've had six or seven... I would have done that if I could.

Love Done More Two If I Could Kids

I was 11 and watching soap operas with my mom, and I thought it would be cool to be an actor. I thought soap operas was going to be the dream at the time - it's obviously now not the dream, but I think soap operas are really cool. Maybe I'll go back to that.

Britt Robertson

Time Cool Mom Think Thought Dream

I like debating policy.

Anthony Scaramucci

Policy Like Debating

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