Patricia Millett Quotes

Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.

Patricia Millett

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I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.

Joanna Garcia

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The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.

Michael Feinstein

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Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control, individual freedom in culture and sexuality, and a greater role for the government in protecting the environment and ensuring economic equality.

Steven Pinker

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I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

Steven Spielberg

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Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation - but rather, for the vast majority, the adventure of living in between.

Simon Schama

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What drives me is winning championships.

Tony Parker

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For me, history is always personal. And it's how your personal history interacts with the history of your time. I'm very attracted to characters who were cursed, as the Chinese say, to live in interesting times.

Tom Reiss

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They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.

Ronnie Wood

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It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent.

Mitch McConnell

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I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.

Jon Lee Anderson

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New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

Brendan Behan

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When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

Brian McKnight

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