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Alan Dershowitz Quotes

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

Alan Dershowitz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: lawyer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 1, 1938

Topics

Freedom Speech Secrets Important Act

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

Jerry Lewis

Fool People Laugh You Table Him

All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a father figure for generations.

Andris Nelsons

Father Music Personality Lifetime He

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All you have is language. Why write beneath yourself? It's an act of respect for the reader as much as yourself.

John Connolly

Good Respect Yourself Writing Story

Bands like Little Mix do represent youth culture because loads of 16 year old girls listen to them.

Stormzy

Culture Youth Year Listen Old Like

I don't know why people don't feel like being positive is much more powerful than being negative.

Shonda Rhimes

Positive People Negative Powerful

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

Jose Saramago

Life Death Story Generation Die

The Internet is a good way to try some stuff with no big crew and no money being spent. Since there are no stakes to it, you can try to be a little experimental.

Jonathan Krisel

Good Money Internet You Way Try

When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'.

Jon Taffer

College Behavior Anthropology Our

The biggest thing my dad taught me was to play without fear.

Christian Pulisic

Fear Me Play Without Taught Thing

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

Antonin Scalia

Family Child Not Perfect Perfect Big

Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I ask the makeup artist to cover up my pimples, but beyond that, I try not to be too vain.

Anthony Edwards

Hair Makeup Worry Artist Vanity Why

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

Pixie Lott

Music Writing Doing Know Imagine