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A committed conservative with interpersonal skills equal to or superior to Rehnquist's would be a far more effective chief justice than a nominee of equal intellect who lacks those graces.


David J. Garrow

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J. J. ABRAMS My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I th...
J. J. WATT What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically...
J. J. ABRAMS With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One D...
J. J. WATT My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p...
J. J. WATT When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, ...
J. J. WATT Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ...
J. J. ABRAMS I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
J. J. WATT The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
J. J. WATT There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE I'm a fast writer.
J. J. ABRAMS There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking...
J. J. WATT It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It'...
J. J. WATT It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
J. J. WATT ...somos nosotros, los psicoanalistas, quienes en el silencio de la escucha imaginamos mentalmente, ...
J.-D. (JUAN-DAVID) NASIO I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the str...
JUICY J I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listen...
J. COLE If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My mo...
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