We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
William O. Douglas
Recitation: by Male by Female
When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.
Andres Segovia
WorkBuildingStandDownPlaceUp
Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.
Spencer Bachus
HealthAmericanInsuranceHealthcare
I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.
Tom Lehrer
MyselfJobMeStrangersAnything
Thousands of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury's believing their word over a police officer's are slim to none.
Michelle Alexander
PolicePeopleYearGuiltyKnowOdds
When I first joined the Secret Service in 1983, I was right out of college, having spent the last two or three years of my college experience working as a police officer for the city of Orlando, Florida.
Julia Pierson
ServiceExperiencePoliceCollege
I don't plan the books ahead of time. It's not like Harry Potter. I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline.
Diana Gabaldon
WorkTimePlanAheadWriteLine
I believe the way we dress on a daily basis is our message we put out to the world.
Brad Goreski
DailyDressWorldBelieveWayOut
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Bruce Lee
SimplicityMeEasyTrueNothingWay
The wisest have the most authority.
Plato
AuthorityMostWisest
We're just so self-conscious. However much we try not to be, on some level, especially as a woman and an actress, you have so much pressure when it comes your hair and the bags under your eyes and your skin.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
EyesWomanHairPressureYouSkin
Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important, that people want to have, is to keep publishing alive.
Scott Spencer
CultureTogetherPeopleAliveWant
Whether you're talking about MSNBC or Fox or CNN, it's all about getting enough interest out there, sensationalizing the story in such a way that people are compelled to tune in.
Reza Aslan
PeopleStoryEnoughTalkingYouWay
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