"The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities."

-- Robert H. Jackson

#Rights Quotes #Political Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“I'm so language-based and I'm so about communicating, and my art has always been very audience-based, and very about being functional and communicating something, and about feeling like I have to be heard.”
“It was mostly an aura about him (Gene Kelly). For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child.”
“People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as you do. I answer that it is not clever at all. It is the gift of looking at oneself coolly, of calculating the future objectively. I could see the danger signals as far as ballet was concerned before anyone else did, that's all.”

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“The future of rock belongs to women.”
“We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.”
“This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”
“Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.”
“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.”

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