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Antonin Scalia

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SUNDAY ADELAJA Social media should improve your life, not become your life!
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DIPLO There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
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RUTH BADER GINSBURG When it comes right down to it, whatever business you're in, you're in the people business. ...
KAREN SALMANSOHN Justice Thomas, my old boss, got 52 votes. Justice (Antonin) Scalia got 98 votes, ... But Justice Th...
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ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Even if it's your wedding, if you're a guy, it's boring.
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ED RENDELL Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.
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DONALD KNUTH You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts s...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You can’t live your life for other people. You've got to do what’s right for you, even if it hur...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life dep...
ARTHUR ASHE Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not power...
BRENDON BURCHARD Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-of...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL We're not doing brain surgery. We're not saving lives... Even if you're doing Shakespear...
JULIA STILES If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.
C. K. WILLIAMS It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achi...
REGINA BRETT Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just w...
JACKIE ROBINSON When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fing...
KEN JENNINGS The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up...
RUSH LIMBAUGH If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person,...
MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
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BARBARA HEPWORTH I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, p...
PATRICK STEWART You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your ...
JOEL COEN So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You c...
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EMILIA FOX Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social ins...
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ST. LUCIA You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No wa...
LANCE HENRIKSEN Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. Wh...
NATE CORDDRY I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of...
DEAN KAMEN I think if you alienate people and just focus on your work then it just becomes lonely and it's ...
JULIANNE HOUGH There are a million people who are refugees, ... Life goes on, and if it didn't impact you directly,...
ELLEN DEGENERES I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'...
FEISAL ABDUL RAUF If you do not feel comfortable with your body as it is, you are not likely to feel comfortable shari...
LONA SANDON With 100 million people, somebody is using your product in some interesting way. If you change it......
MIKE KRIEGER People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're j...
GARY VAYNERCHUK When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let i...
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LAURA MARANO Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't ...
BEAU WILLIMON Nobody cares if you're black, white, straight, gay, Christian, Jewish, whatever it may be. When ...
COLIN KAEPERNICK Conflicts of interest' arise when you're not - when you're sneaky about it, when you'...
SEAN SPICER What I've found, and what Scripture tells us, is that your faith is not something on the side, s...
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DREW GODDARD My life has been charmed in the sense that I've met some extraordinary people. But at the end of...
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TOM GUIRY Just because you're passionately interested in something doesn't mean it has to be your care...
LARRY SMITH You can be a pretty face, but if you're not a nice person, it just doesn't work. I'm not...
KATE MOSS If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, ...
BETTY WHITE You're not alone, there is more to this I know. You can make it out, you will live to tell.
SAOSIN I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if i...
ROBERT DE NIRO It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work ou...
KAREN GILLAN You are the architect of your life.
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RAY BRADBURY When you spend seven years of your life working on something that you're really passionate about...
DANIELLE FISHEL [Conservatives Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas and liberals Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsbur...
ANTHONY KENNEDY Be all that you can be.
You can be great.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When you're on TV and in people's houses - it's great that anybody watches anything you&...
NICHOLAS HOULT And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want i...
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JON ORINGER If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you&#...
JO BRAND If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write ...
GENE STRATTON-PORTER The problem with holistic management is it's so profoundly simple, but it's not easy. And it...
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LORRIN L. LEE I feel like going to class every morning is so humbling. You're always working to improve, and y...
MISTY COPELAND They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your cultur...
BILLIE JEAN KING There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties,...
SLOANE CROSLEY It's impossible to change the social without changing the personal - you have to put your money ...
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CHRISTY ROMANO If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you&...
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ANTONIN SCALIA find itself unable to resolve the significant legal issue presented by the case.
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ANTONIN SCALIA It seems to be an odd proposition,
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ANTONIN SCALIA And what I would say now is, yes, if a state enacted a law permitting flogging, it is immensely stup...
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ANTONIN SCALIA I don't know. I wouldn't want to go through it today, I'll tell you that much.
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ANTONIN SCALIA They don't have any separate harm.
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ANTONIN SCALIA over my dead body.
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ANTONIN ARTAUD Theater of cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of...
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ANTONIN ARTAUD There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
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ANTONIN ARTAUD Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of yo...
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ANTONIN ARTAUD Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being
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ANTONIN ARTAUD We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself...
ANTONIN SERTILLANGES Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for ...
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ANTONIN ARTAUD Those who live, live off the dead.
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ANTONIN ARTAUD There is in every madman
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whose idea
shining in his head
f...
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