William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 25, 1906 - July 24, 1997

Topics

ProcessFairnessPersonConfession

You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?

Jeremy Grantham

AloneYouPersonHealthyRunPickle

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

Ann Bancroft

ThinkBetterPushKnowStriveGet

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

John Updike

SecretsShameSpiesInfancyFew

Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence are such legends.

Rory O'Malley

LegendsMartinLawrence

A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

Roy H. Williams

GoodValueStoryWithoutGood Story

I didn't feel ready to leave home, because it went from no freedom to all freedom. And I was like, 'Oh, my God, I don't know what I'm doing in college.' There seemed to be no like-minded people where I was... I didn't have a clan. I didn't have a choir... There was no safety net.

Lisa Lampanelli

HomeGodFreedomCollegeSafety

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

Jorge Ramos

PowerThinkDistanceKeepI Think

The United States is proud to be the first country to recognize the existence of a Jewish State - just 11 minutes after Israel's independence was declared.

Denis McDonough

ProudIndependenceCountryFirst

Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum.

Clint Eastwood

StruggleMeReunionNowWayPoint

In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.

Colin Angle

OpportunityPeopleEndYouRobots

I think a lot of people have an idea of virtual reality from science fiction, books and movies that have been out over the last couple of decades.

Brendan Iribe

SciencePeopleThinkRealityMovies

I wasn't the most confident of cooks, but I just persevered, and I wanted to learn, and I wanted to be a sponge, and I wanted to be better than the next person, and I wanted to learn as much as I could, so I just kept pushing, and it took me a long time actually to be confident in my technique and my ability as a cook.

April Bloomfield

TimeMeConfidentBetterLearnLong

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