"Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool."

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Source : The New York Times, July 5, 1998.

Paul Begala

#Law Quotes #Land Quotes #President Quotes

“Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the stage for that to happen as well as the prompts.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“None of my 'clients' - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute.”
“Penalties are awful, unfair, but what else is there?”
“Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.”

Source : "Scourge and poet" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2003.
“We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.”
“You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.”
“By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.”
“Is winning the Open worth a million pounds? Well, it's worthwhile winning it - I would recommend it to anybody!”

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