Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.
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Related We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political... NOAH FELDMAN Democrats creating the expectation that judges should act as politicians in robes is a dangerous pre... THOM TILLIS The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents ... JAMES BOVARD It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play. EMILY VANCAMP Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it... CAL THOMAS With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than t... BOB NEWHART People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of ... ADAM COHEN It's interesting that there are only two groups of people in our country who are not held accoun... DEBBIE STABENOW My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is... CHRISTOPHER NOLAN You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the cultur... REBECCA SOLNIT Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little p... DAVID MALPASS Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I... CHRISTIAN CAMARGO Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on ... CAL THOMAS I believe that everyone, regardless of who they are, should do something that is greater than themse... TIM TEBOW While exceptional employees don't seek conflict, they don't run away from it either. They... TRAVIS BRADBERRY I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They'r... DAVID HEYMAN I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They wan... DAN PINK I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They wan... DANIEL H. PINK They aren't Jeb Bush. They don't speak Spanish off the top of their head. They have to distinguish t... GEOFFREY BECKER Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statute... GEORGE WILL The whole equation has been shaken up. Consumers feel so much more in control. They have all the pow... KIT YARROW Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accompl... DON YAEGER From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Cho... CHRISTOPHER MOORE From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from ... JANE GOODALL Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather... ROBERT BORK One of the things that's unique about Louisiana politics is that people here have a much more re... MARK FROST I don't think they're gratuitous with the nudity on 'Game of Thrones.' It's very... NEIL MARSHALL The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose th... ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circums... JOHN BERGER I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, mor... JASON MRAZ It's not about how skinny you are or how much money or how many diamonds you have - that's t... KIMORA LEE SIMMONS In L.A., like, there's a lot of, like, materialism, and, you know, people who think they're ... KREAYSHAWN The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, ... HILARY DUFF The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comf... ELIZABETH WURTZEL The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decision... MARK ZUCKERBERG It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide... OPRAH WINFREY Makeup is something that a female has to reckon with every single day. Whether you wear it or don... ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN This case is well known and will set a precedent on aboriginal title based on earlier court decision... DOUG MCARTHUR Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivitie... KIRK CAMERON Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was kno... MARGO JEFFERSON Some find that they are content with little, while others find that they want much, much more. Still... STEPHEN RICHARDS O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! / How s... BIBLE If I want to make political decisions, I should stand for election. If I want to do something in the... CHERIE BLAIR It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same tim... DAISY BERKOWITZ [Parents] think their kids can dress themselves and they can feed themselves and they can let themse... LINDA PERLSTEIN 'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselv... C. C. H. POUNDER Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very q... STEVEN ERIKSON Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakab... ECKHART TOLLE Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but some... DEVON AOKI Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on. ECKHART TOLLE With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are b... MARK RUFFALO The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they... BEAU WILLIMON The only real solution is comprehensive immigration reform that secures our borders and provides a p... JON OSSOFF Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of under... AARON RUELL Adults think they're wielding power, but really power is wielding them JOHN GREEN The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice ve... LARRY MULLEN, JR. It's extremely important just to keep things positive and happy as much as we can... I think it&... SHAWN MENDES That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - do... SCOTT MCCALLUM And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or t... JASON REITMAN There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms s... GARRY KASPAROV If they get questions, they should understand that they are not required to provide any information ... TERRY FRANCKE That's SHIT! How do you remove it? You just put it inside the trash, easy as that. DEYTH BANGER The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themsel... JOHN BERGER As long as there's really good actors that use their clout to support fringe films, whatever gen... JOHN CURRAN As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to... TATE TAYLOR The tragedy waiting for politicians in future is greater than the gain in politics if it is measured... BAMIGBOYE OLUROTIMI Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a s... DAVID PUTTNAM I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in b... DON CHEADLE I do think that it is a jolt to the legal system when you overrule a precedent. Precedent plays an i... JOHN ROBERTS I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they coul... ROBERT ENGLUND So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures pol... FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER Tresses, that wear
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How much themselves more precious are. RICHARD CRASHAW special" knowledge gives them a sense of power, control, status and/or monetary gain. For some, the ... CAROL A BROWN The beauty of science fiction is that it takes the audience's guard down; they're much more ... DUNCAN JONES People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other... ELIZABETH GASKELL The World Bank, as you may very well know, is frequently a very controversial agency. We're seen as ... CHRISTIAAN POORTMAN They obviously feel that, to emerge from the pack, they need to distinguish themselves by being more... MERYL STREEP Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or w... BEN GIBBARD In the world of administrative decisions, this is about as defective as you can get. It was our grie... WILL JAMES In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to... ABERJHANI We can borrow from lending agencies but not from individuals. The city will do as much paving next y... DIANE CREWS unusually brazen. ... It shows really poor judgment to put yourself in a position where you are seen... LARRY NOBLE I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimac... ELIZABETH GILBERT Like [former President Richard] Nixon says on one of his tapes, if the president does it, it is lega... BOB WOODWARD A big thing that people want to know is how much of their money goes to the charity and how much is ... DARREN BROWN It's hard not to read the success of someone like Hilary Mantel as the product of a world that i... DAVID SHIELDS It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addi... MOBY The great souls distinguish with two things; their greater needs and their greater agony. ALIREZA SALEHI NEJAD I'm against unanswerable concentrations of power, whether that be government or private industry... DANIEL SUAREZ Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why m... THOMAS S. SZASZ Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why me... Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why me... THOMAS S. SZASZ Everyone from executives and judges to scientists and politicians may reason to emotionally biased j... DREW WESTEN What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If I'm in a good mood, it&... KIM CATTRALL Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or pic... DOLORES HUERTA For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha... THE WEEKND
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