Court Quotes - Page 8

• I'm very shy. But as a director and especially a female director, absolutely: How I used to walk on the court is how I walk on set. And I have to - I mean, I'm controlling 150, 200 people, and everything is on me.

  Gina Prince-Bythewood

  Mean, People, Directors

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• We do need to rethink privacy. I think we need to fall back on (former Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter's definition of privacy which is, "Privacy is the right to be left alone."

  Paul Saffo

  Fall, Thinking, Justice

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• It was Thomas Jefferson who said that we should not allow the courts to have a monopoly on the interpretation of what is constitutional and what is not.

  Walter E. Williams

  Monopoly, Should, Interpretation

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• The weaknesses and biases of the international mechanisms of accountability make it seem desirable to extend the domain of accountability by empowering domestic courts to act as agents of the world legal system. Even if there is no consistent application of Universal Jurisdiction, it still leads those who might be prosecuted to alter their travel plans to avoid even the complication of waiting for a complaint to be dismissed.

  Richard A. Falk

  Waiting, Accountability, Empowering

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It would not be desirable to include 'terrorism' among international crimes subject to International Criminal Court jurisdiction if defined to apply only to anti-state acts of violence. The failure to include terrorism as a distinct crime was due to the inability to agree upon its proper definition.

  Richard A. Falk

  Agree Upon, Definitions, Violence

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• My parents put me in sports when I was 5 years old, and they put my sisters in sports. So that's what I grew up with, that mentality: "It's OK to want to be the best. Aggression is good." You have to have that little walk on the court or down the track. I love to put that into my female characters, because I don't think enough girls are taught that at a young age.

  Gina Prince-Bythewood

  Girl, Sports, Character

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the richer people, in taxation and grants and supplements and things of that kind. Primarily exacerbated more recently by the Supreme Court's stupid ruling on Citizens United, and now there's a massive flood of money into the political system that I think has subverted the essence of a moral and ethical standard that used to permeate American democracy. Now it's not an admirable process. I think we've gone backwards.

  Jimmy Carter

  Strong, Stupid, Party

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• This issue of expanding the reach of international criminal law by reliance on the use of Universal Jurisdiction by domestic courts needs to be balanced against the injustice of according impunity to those with strong geopolitical backing. It is notable that several western European countries backtracked on UJ after threats of retaliatory moves by the United States and Israel. There is no doubt that the domain of UJ is a geopolitical battleground.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Strong, Moving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Adversity, Cat, Men

  "The Square Egg". Book by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Chapter: "The Achievement of the Cat", 1924.

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• Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.

  Eric Maisel

  Creativity, Artist, Self

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• It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.

  Virginia Wade

  Kings, Thinking, People

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• Not only do I admire Jordan's accomplishments and his phenomenal basketball ability, but also the way he has conducted himself on and off the court. I don't think there will ever be another player to have the same impact on the game of basketball as Michael Jordan.

  Elgin Baylor

  Motivational, Basketball, Player

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• The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

  Seneca the Elder

  Kings, People, Politics

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• Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Doe, Ears

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• ...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.

  Jerry Bridges

  Responsibility, Doe, Holiness

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.41, NavPress

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• It's not that unusual for presidents to take strong positions on cases decided by the court. But you know, Lesley, that's why the Constitution wisely gave us life tenure. They can talk about us, but they can't remove us.

  Alex Kozinski

  Strong, President, Constitution

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Media, Focus, Too Much

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• My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  House, Special, World

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• When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  School, Dark, Court Judges

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• One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!

  Yoko Ono

  Fun, Judging, One Day

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• God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Believe, Healthy

  "Your Best Life Now". Book by Joel Osteen, October 01, 2004.

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• MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

  James Otis

  Book, Eugenics, Honor

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• Although we've used the concept brand communities a couple of times, it's important to reiterate that communities aren't created, they are courted. Most brands will need to court a range of different communities and travel across pools, webs, and hubs if they want to reach the full range of desired consumers.

  Henry Jenkins

  Couple, Technology, Community

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• Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Liberty, Trouble

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777”

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• Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.

  Learned Hand

  Money, Patriotic, Government

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