"The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional."

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Source : News conference, Washington, D.C., reported in The New York Times, p. 38, February 25, 1971.

Hugo Black

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“All of us needed time to rest. And we had time - four months of it - to take all the rest in the world.”
“Producers don't like the director who ignores their opinion - but I always try not to be the nicest person when making a movie. It's easy to do that. Just say 'Yes sir', "Alright', 'Okay' - but they're not seeing the movie because if they can, they should be directing the movie.”
“There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.”
“No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.”
“If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.”
“There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons of unbroken health and of bodily sickness, of riches and of poverty, of study and action, of comradeship and isolation, of defiance and of obedience, of virtue and of vice.”
“I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.”
“Live to the fullest, with no regrets in your heart”

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