Lysander Spooner Quotes

Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people. Jurors, on the other hand, are exposed to none of these temptations.

Lysander Spooner

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PowerJusticeMoneyPeopleHand

Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they're doing it?

Jerry Saltz

StyleDoingEnjoyChooseExplain

The Process is never going to end.

Joel Embiid

ProcessEndNeverGoing

For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming in. Once you let them in, you've already done the first and most critical thing, you've honored that information by including it. And by doing that, you've actually changed the world.

Robert Irwin

BestWorldStartDoingAttention

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.

Steven Berkoff

GreatHouseRunDirectorOpera

There are terrible jerks, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the workplace. And that means that you do have to make some changes in your behavior, but there is absolutely no need for you to give them power over your happiness.

Srikumar Rao

HappinessPowerBehaviorYouNeed

My husband was an Air Force pilot man years ago and recently an Air Force wife thanked me for my service! I laughed and said, 'No, I wasn't in the Air Force, my husband was!' And she smiled and said, 'If he served, you served. And thank you.'

Robyn Carr

ServiceWifeManMeHusbandYou

There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.

Robert Wyatt

WorkLivePeopleMy OwnOutOwn

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

Djimon Hounsou

UnderstandingAmericaAfricaFields

I ask all my actors to do two things: I ask them to fail for me, and I ask them to surprise me.

Derek Cianfrance

MeSurpriseAskTwoThingsFail

In my case, I played sports my whole life. I got out of college, and I didn't bother to get health care coverage because I just figured I didn't need it. But you know that if you blow out your knee on a basketball court or you get in a car accident, and you're uninsured, it can bankrupt you.

Denis McDonough

LifeCarHealthSportsCollegeCare

Don't think too much. The best pictures come naturally.

Chiara Ferragni

BestThinkToo MuchPicturesCome

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

Christopher Darden

JusticeCompassionLawLegalWithout

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