"He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce protection of individual rights led some to anoint him the moral conscience of the court."

-- Judy Woodruff

#Years Quotes #Rights Quotes #Justice Quotes

“They say the movies should be more like life; I think life should be more like the movies.”

Source : James Kotsilibas-Davis, Myrna Loy (1987). “Myrna Loy: being and becoming”, Alfred A. Knopf
“She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because she liked to look out the window and see the clothes blowing in the wind. She had been especially delighted, one day, when one sleeve of the top of her husband's pajamas, prodded by the stiff breeze off the bay, reached over and grabbed her nightgown around the waist.”
“Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'”
“If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody.”
“We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.”
“I'm working as hard as I can to get back to Packer Nation.”
“Hypotheses are what we lack the least.”
“T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.”

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