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Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while judges like Ms. Sotomayor are activists. But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like 'free speech' or 'due process' - or potato chip.

Adam Cohen

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Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

John Lydon

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In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in their lives.

Matt de la Pena

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To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Ambrose Bierce

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The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

Stephen Gardiner

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Clearly I'm really attracted to parts where there's a dark, sinister feel about them!

Sophie Turner

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The wonderful thing about cabaret is, you can do a lot of things you can't do in a concert. You can't do smoky ballads for 50 minutes in a concert. It's a different animal.

Rita Moreno

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People sometimes ask me to name the greatest coach in NFL history. George Halas may have set the standard, but Don Shula has won more games than anyone, and he has done it in the most competitive era. He had an incomparable ability to evaluate players, to motivate them, and to teach them the game of football.

Marv Levy

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I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

Michel Faber

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I wanted to make America proud.

Mirai Nagasu

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The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.

Mitch McConnell

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I'm not a big fan of the Olympic Games. The ATP calendar is a bit complex due to the Olympic event.

Dominic Thiem

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Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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