"The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states."

-- Burke Marshall

#Thinking Quotes #Law Quotes #Justice Quotes

“Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?”
“Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day”
“To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.”
“Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.”
“We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.”
“I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny.”

Source : Interview with John DeBellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2009.
“I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.”
“After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.”

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