Floyd Abrams Quotes

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.

Floyd Abrams

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FreedomMemoryLawThinkAmerica

But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.

Joe Rogan

ComedyHardOpenChickThem

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

Mel Brooks

ReligionThinkJewishBecauseRather

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

Max Weber

EthicsClubCannotCultExchange

PBS was not a left-wing ideology. I mean, Air America was, but PBS was not. But anybody who tells the truth is now branded and marginalized. The devolution of the American press began in 1986 when Ronald Reagan abolished the fairness doctrine.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

TruthTruth IsAmericanAmericaNow

We get so caught up in winning all the time, but it's also even more important to be a good person, so that's what I learned.

Aly Raisman

GoodTimeWinningGood PersonPerson

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

Sienna Miller

PeopleActingCelebrityOpenFilm

I remember I grew up in Pasadena in a very, kind of, homogeneous, kind of, suburban existence and then I went to college at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. And there were all these, kind of, hipster New York kids who were so-called 'cultured' and had so much, you know, like knew all the references and, like, already had their look down.

Mike White

New YorkCollegeRememberYouLook

I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

Jon Lovitz

MoneyComedyFirstOverAnything

Celebrity is a word that I find offensive. That's the c-word. I hate it. It means no discernible talent. It means all you want is to be famous. It doesn't mean you're a writer, an actor, a mime. I think I wanna not be a celebrity.

Bob Saget

HateTalentThinkFamousYouFind

The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

FutureTimeMediaDoneWayBeyond

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Norman Mailer

LifeLawGrowMoreSamePay

College is good discipline. That's what I learned there: pull an all-nighter, get it done, and get an A. I'm the biggest procrastinator, and I learned how to be an efficient procrastinator.

Nikki Glaser

GoodDisciplineCollegeDoneGet

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