Elena Kagan Quotes

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

Elena Kagan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 28, 1960

Topics

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I was born in a ghetto on the North Side of Pittsburgh. I was born as Emmett Till was dying and the civil rights era was being born.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

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I need to write a sitcom, but something with warmth, not one where the dad comes home and he's treated like an idiot.

Jens Lekman

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My children are vampires. I don't mean that they are going to dress as vampires for Halloween. I mean that, like vampires, they cannot be captured on film.

John Dickerson

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The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right.

John Conyers

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I've always had difficulties with female characters.

John le Carre

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The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read science fiction magazines will recognize your byline on a novel.

Robert J. Sawyer

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I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.

Robert Mueller

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America is good enough for us.

John Sergeant Wise

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We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest 'must-haves', whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they 'have' to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.

Tom Hodgkinson

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For me, my father was a pastor, and my parents are still together. They raised me, you know, to be respectful.

Ro James

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I was writing rap at 12 years old and began writing songs as a 20-year-old. I think I wrote my first song in the winter of 2008-2009, when I was in Buenos Aires. I was writing about growing up and my boys back home.

Lukas Forchhammer

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I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.

Louis Zamperini

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