Bennie Thompson Quotes

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

Bennie Thompson

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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Anatole France

EducationMindWillCultivateWhich

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Siri Hustvedt

SufferingThroughUnluckyLivedBeen

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

Ruth J. Simmons

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Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

Jay-Z

GreatFoundationYouBeliefKnowing

In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it, to make it an interesting setting for a story, you want to bring someone anomalous into that setting, to see how she conforms to it, and it to her.

Jonathan Dee

PeopleStoryInterestingSomeoneYou

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.

Dennis Eckersley

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People in power make the path to power. It means that we will always get the same system, and it's one that is not necessarily in the interest of people's lives.

DeRay Mckesson

PowerPathPeopleWillSameAlways

When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves.

David Wroblewski

WorkYouConversationSoftwareBig

I used to get butterflies when I'd see big dudes. I don't get butterflies no more.

Deandre Ayton

MoreSeeBigUsedGetButterflies

One thinks of toys and play as an area of great novelty and potentiality where all sorts of responses can be developed. The fact that adults are allowing their imaginations to have activity through toy kinds of objects is a further reflection of the belief in the imagination of the adult mind.

Brian Sutton-Smith

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Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

Audrey MacLean

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Evolutionary science kind of bears that out: When species are rivals and competing for space and resources, the superior one wins. Nature has no compunction about that; it just is.

Mark Pellegrino

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