Benjamin Wittes Quotes

If the 'enemy combatant' cases of Padilla and Hamdi present a clash between liberty and security, each side champions one while giving short shrift to the other.

Benjamin Wittes

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PresentShortGivingSecurityEnemy

I grew up very fast. I was always hanging around with older kids.

Joe Penny

FastAlwaysUpHangingOlderKids

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

Jerry Saltz

ArtProgressExpectationsWaySocial

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

Matthew Henry

WalkingTalkingHeavenWillBring

It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.

Matthew Stover

ImpossibleStoryFeelQuietCapture

Running is my bedrock activity.

Ann Bancroft

ActivityRunningBedrock

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

LoveLove IsThin

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

Tom Glazer

GoodMeSayMatterWriteThey Say

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.

Roger Daltrey

DayThinkGenerationEvery DayDays

You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.

Rose Leslie

RedCoolThinkLanguageSomeoneYou

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

Martin Short

MyselfDeathTearsSometimesMy Own

I'm glad to have grown up in the countryside and played, and had to use my imagination rather than a TV and had to learn to act the hard way, to have dealt with the rejection. It's a life as well as a job, at the end the day, we all have to work for a living, but we have to have a life as well.

Jason Clarke

LifeWorkDayJobImaginationEnd

When I think about life on Earth, there should not be a species like us. And if there was, we should be out in the jungle killing each other in small groups. That's what you should expect.

Jonathan Haidt

LifeSmallThinkYouEarthJungle

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