"When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life."

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Source : "Georgia High Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.

Leah Ward Sears

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“The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy.”
“I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent.”
“Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.”
“God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture.”
“Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians.”
“The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. What the daily press reports as the malign act of terrorists or drug lords or rogue states or illegal arms merchants often turn out to be blowback from earlier American operations.”

Source : Chalmers Johnson (2001). “Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire”, p.23, Macmillan
“It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.”

Source : Interview in Discover magazine Vol. 27, No. 07, July 2006.
“As far as how important the real-life resonance of the stories is, I think it must play at least a small role in the show's success, because it gives the show this sense of suspense from the fact that it seems at least plausible.”

Source : "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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