"I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not..."

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Source : "Senate Panel to Wrap Questioning of Alito". "Morning Edition" with Stebe Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 12, 2006.

Samuel Alito

#Racist Quotes #Kind Quotes #Bigots Quotes

“Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'”
“I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required. You may easily disguise it, so that it is only recognized much later, when the story and the characters have faded into darkness.”
“My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.”
“I judge people based solely on the quality of bands on the black concert t-shirts they wear.”
“I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.”
“Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow. We are nothing but what we derive from the air we breathe, the climate we inhabit, the government we obey, the system of religion we profess, and the nature of our employment.”
“Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.”
“I read once about the concepts of a lateral idea and the vertical idea. If you dig a hole and itâ€™s in the wrong place, digging it deeper isnâ€™t going to help. The lateral idea is when you skip over and dig someplace else.”

Source : Seymour Chwast (1985). “The left-handed designer”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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