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ANTONIN SCALIA It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... Life is what you make of it.
You have to decide what you want in life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO It really comes down to can you count to five, and frankly, I can only count to two?[Antonin] Scalia...
CLARKE FORSYTHE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani...
DAVE GROHL Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is...
DREW BREES What you do will project you
SOTONYE ANGA I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.
ROALD DAHL When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA To find why that happen and why this is happening, you should start from the beginning the problem c...
DEYTH BANGER People are so stupid, that they repeat your words and said in other words and what??
(I'm stupi...
DEYTH BANGER and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in Amer...
GEORGE W. BUSH How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. Wanting something badly even though it could hurt you," Bentley repeated. He looked up at the ceilin...
NELLIE CHRISTINE And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.
Who knows if I’ll be dead the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Who you know only gets you in the door; what you know gets you the keys to the house.
GINA GREENLEE Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and love...
ALBERTO CAEIRO The results of my work don't have much to do with me. I can only be in charge of producing the work ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.
LESLIE WHAT I think justice Scalia is really the gold standard of what a justice should be. Somebody, regardless...
RON JOHNSON I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean...
LISA GLATT Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
~WALT DISNEY In life, it is not a case of what you want but more like what you would like in a case of any decisi...
GARY F EVANS... If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field
There passes for a moment the fig...
ALBERTO CAEIRO It’s an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it’s the soul
But it’s not the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be...
RENEE JAMES To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t...
CRISTIANO RONALDO Happiness ends with horror, you get terrified from the news don't ya?
From the earthquakes, up ...
DEYTH BANGER The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Gi...
GILLIAN FLYNN You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. Yo...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Any...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ Do what you love doing.
JULIANNA MARGULIES What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Night doesn’t fall for my eyes
But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.
Be...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.
Nobody goes faster than the legs they...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by ac...
ROBERT REDFORD It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made...
CALVIN JOHNSON I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the...
AARON SPELLING You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are...
DEYTH BANGER What really matters in life is knowing what you want and going after it
STEVEN C. SAULO I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geeki...
KRISTEN BELL I don't think you're heartless, Mitchell. I just think you're different from me. I take certain thin...
NOELLE ADAMS I don't think you're heartless, Mitchell. I just think you're different from me. I take certain thin...
NOELLE ADAMS For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple...
CRAIG GROESCHEL If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN I was born subject like others to errors and defects,
But never to the error of wanting to unde...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Accept the universe
As the gods gave it to you.
If the gods wanted to give you something e...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worr...
RYAN SHECKLER God exists and he is an atom. So he exists in every thing and everywhere. An atom is a unit and exam...
DEBASISH MRIDHA How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you.
STEPHEN RICHARDS Do what you do so well that even if you weren't paid to do it. Eventually others will want to pay yo...
LORRIN L. LEE We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But ...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR. We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But ...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR. To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.
TONI BRAXTON Even so, I’m somebody.
I’m the Discoverer of Nature.
I’m the Argonaut of true sensat...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I'm just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, 'It is what it ...
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ANTONIN SCALIA It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to ...
ANTONIN SCALIA The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.
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ANTONIN SCALIA By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority ar...
ANTONIN SCALIA As a general rule, I do not think it appropriate for judges to heap either praise or censure upon a ...
ANTONIN SCALIA is to give live-birth abortion free rein.
ANTONIN SCALIA a serious inability of our political branches to conduct international affairs.
ANTONIN SCALIA find itself unable to resolve the significant legal issue presented by the case.
ANTONIN SCALIA Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached
ANTONIN SCALIA A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
ANTONIN SCALIA If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You th...
ANTONIN SCALIA Maybe he wanted to buy a new crutch for Tiny Tim, ... Please, counselor, don't read all these tender...
ANTONIN SCALIA The line between protected pornography and unprotected obscenity lies between appealing to a good he...
ANTONIN SCALIA [The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the...
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ANTONIN SCALIA I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And i...
ANTONIN SCALIA In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that'...
ANTONIN SCALIA But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for demo...
ANTONIN SCALIA The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment - in deterre...
ANTONIN SCALIA There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of...
ANTONIN SCALIA A good, hard-hitting dissent keeps you honest.
ANTONIN SCALIA Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That...
ANTONIN SCALIA I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I'v...
ANTONIN SCALIA Until the courts put a stop to it, public debate over same-sex marriage displayed American democracy...
ANTONIN SCALIA I think I'm a pretty nice fella.
ANTONIN SCALIA I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protect...
ANTONIN SCALIA Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you...
ANTONIN SCALIA If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that yo...
ANTONIN SCALIA It seems to be an odd proposition,
ANTONIN SCALIA If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You th...
ANTONIN SCALIA With each decision of ours that takes from the People a question properly left to them - with each d...
ANTONIN SCALIA And what I would say now is, yes, if a state enacted a law permitting flogging, it is immensely stup...
ANTONIN SCALIA Some people are inherently likeable. If you're not - work on it. It may even improve your social...
ANTONIN SCALIA Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of crimin...
ANTONIN SCALIA I would think the normal assumption is if one person wants that search excluded, that search is excl...
ANTONIN SCALIA If there's anything you absolutely hate, why, it must be unconstitutional. Or, if there's an...
ANTONIN SCALIA It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections.
ANTONIN SCALIA I watched 'The Sopranos,' I saw a couple of episodes of 'Mad Men.' I loved 'Sein...
ANTONIN SCALIA that reliability be assessed in a particular manner: by testing in the crucible of cross-examination...
ANTONIN SCALIA The counting of votes that are of questionable legality does in my view threaten irreparable harm to...
ANTONIN SCALIA You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations ... until they were all litigated...
ANTONIN SCALIA If you are sentenced to torture for a crime, yes, that is a cruel punishment. But the mere fact that...
ANTONIN SCALIA Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want...
ANTONIN SCALIA I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned.
ANTONIN SCALIA Does it stop being a quota because it is somewhere between eight and 12 percent, but it is a quota i...
ANTONIN SCALIA The first instinct of power is the retention of power, and under a Constitution that requires period...
ANTONIN SCALIA I am questioning the propriety – indeed, the sanity – of having a value-laden decision such as t...
ANTONIN SCALIA Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.
ANTONIN SCALIA What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd l...
ANTONIN SCALIA If there was anybody that has been sort of the social glue of the court, it's been Sandra and I will...
ANTONIN SCALIA is locked in the heart of the president.
ANTONIN SCALIA I don't know. I wouldn't want to go through it today, I'll tell you that much.
ANTONIN SCALIA When dinner is over, it won't be her bones on the table.
ANTONIN SCALIA They don't have any separate harm.
ANTONIN SCALIA I do not believe my impartiality can reasonably be questioned,
ANTONIN SCALIA Let the cancer patients suffer.
ANTONIN SCALIA I cannot imagine any responsible citizen would have objected to giving the name,
ANTONIN SCALIA I assure you, I have no agenda.
ANTONIN SCALIA I don't like interjecting us into a battle between the two political branches,
ANTONIN SCALIA The LSC subsidy neither prevents anyone from speaking nor coerces anyone to change speech,
ANTONIN SCALIA Abortion is off the democratic stage. Prohibiting it is unconstitutional, now and forever, coast to ...
ANTONIN SCALIA A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
ANTONIN SCALIA over my dead body.
ANTONIN SCALIA You can make an exception without the sky falling,
ANTONIN SCALIA What will happen is, for every one person who sees it on C-SPAN gavel to gavel -- so that they can r...
ANTONIN SCALIA Does the deck seem stacked against those who oppose abortion? ... You bet.
ANTONIN SCALIA If one is to say as the court does today that ALL executions of the mentally retarded are so morally...
ANTONIN SCALIA the Constitution's refusal to 'deny or disparage' other rights is far removed from affirming any one...
ANTONIN SCALIA They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be ...
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ANTONIN SCALIA The First Amendment has not repealed the ancient rule of life, that he who pays the piper calls the ...
ANTONIN SCALIA A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
ANTONIN SCALIA We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of pun...
ANTONIN SCALIA Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry
out a death sentence properly reached.
ANTONIN SCALIA If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Const...
ANTONIN SCALIA Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It c...
ANTONIN SCALIA If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as st...
ANTONIN SCALIA If I had to choose, I would always take the less dynamic, indeed even the lazy person who knows what...
ANTONIN SCALIA I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.
ANTONIN SCALIA Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. ...
ANTONIN SCALIA Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.
ANTONIN SCALIA A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.
ANTONIN SCALIA My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
JACK SCALIA There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.
JACK SCALIA I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that ser...
JACK SCALIA I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
JACK SCALIA You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
JACK SCALIA But this country is a great country and will always rebound.
JACK SCALIA Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. ...
JACK SCALIA Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
JACK SCALIA The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.
ANTONIN SERTILLANGES Mozart is sweet sunshine.
ANTONIN DVORAK When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from i...
ANTONIN ARTAUD If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide...
ANTONIN ARTAUD You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, yo...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
ANTONIN ARTAUD The stage is a concrete physical place which asks to be filled, and to be given its own concrete lan...
ANTONIN ARTAUD The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything
ANTONIN ARTAUD Theater of cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of...
ANTONIN ARTAUD However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itsel...
ANTONIN ARTAUD With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, a...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find t...
ANTONIN ARTAUD But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about dif...
ANTONIN ARTAUD And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted s...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNA...
ANTONIN ARTAUD The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath...
ANTONIN ARTAUD It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothe...
ANTONIN ARTAUD So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of fol...
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.
ANTONIN ARTAUD It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psy...
ANTONIN ARTAUD I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know t...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of yo...
ANTONIN ARTAUD We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness...
ANTONIN ARTAUD The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being
ANTONIN ARTAUD All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
ANTONIN ARTAUD I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this-...
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 ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD When we speak the word ''life',' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it fr...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all ho...
ANTONIN ARTAUD We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
ANTONIN ARTAUD Those who live, live off the dead.
ANTONIN ARTAUD It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand oth...
ANTONIN SERTILLANGES I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of you...
ANTONIN ARTAUD When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know...
ANTONIN ARTAUD The man who is too isolated grows timid, abstracted, a little odd: He stumbles along amid realities ...
ANTONIN SERTILLANGES [defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of...
ANTONIN ARTAUD There is in every madman
a misunderstood genius
whose idea
shining in his head
f...
ANTONIN ARTAUD