Alan Dershowitz Quotes

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

Alan Dershowitz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.

Jerry Lewis

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There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

Joel Edgerton

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Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

John Hume

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Yes, guns are to men what jewelry is to women!

Steve King

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Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.

Simon Callow

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The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

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The big bestsellers aren't being created by Barnes & Noble.

Michael Korda

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Whether weapons exist in Iraq, Saddam Hussein or post-Saddam Hussein, it is a serious enough issue that require that we continue to go and make sure that Iraq does not have weapons.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.

Lois Lowry

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The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'

Chris Pratt

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If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it's hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

Conor McGregor

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