Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That’s the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.
Acting was a lot like football. When you’re a DB and you’re one on one with a receiver, you’re going to dance. It’s go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That’s exactly how it is when a director says ‘Action!’ It’s the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.
The Constitution says that government isn’t supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
I’ve been reading this little book. It’s called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don’t want to hear those who say we’re appealing to the authorities. Who’s the power here?
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
I’m always gonna be crazy about dishes in the sink. Crazy! Because it’s a sign of disrespect. It says that you think someone else is going to clean up after you: that you’re not prepared to do it yourself.
Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I’m taking you on a surprise date, you don’t know where you are going and you can’t see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.
If you were to make a commercial, or do a magazine ad that says ‘let’s get ready to rumble’ to draw attention to your product, you’ve stolen my property.
I’m often asked where my nickname ‘Kun’ comes from. My parents says it was a Japanese cartoon I used to watch on television when I was very young, set in the Stone Age, where the main character was a boy called Kum Kum, the little caveman.
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
Whatever my agent says to do, I usually do.
President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly.
Anyone who says you can’t do anything with short hair is wrong! Every day, my style turns into something new, and there are so many different ways you can wear it.
Every time a child says I don’t believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
Religion is man-made. Every religion says my ‘God is the best.’
What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, ‘I need more hormones.’ So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it’s even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle.
My husband calls me ‘catfish.’ He says I’m all mouth and no brains.
Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they’re honest about everything.
The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.
For the most part, if somebody approaches me and says, ‘I’d like to interview you,’ who am I to say no, when I spend all my days going, ‘Hello, you don’t know me. I’d like to ask you some questions. Do you have a little time?’
When a manager calls you and says you are part of his plans and that he trusts you, then you will give everything for him.
She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
Mr. Modi has to take instructions from Nagpur, and whatever Nagpur says, he will do.
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
History never really says goodbye. History says, ‘See you later.’
It’s hard for me to just say, ‘Wow, this is amazing – I’m famous. I’m living the dream.’ I sit there and think, ‘I’m scared – this can go away tomorrow.’ My dad always says that I’m a tortured soul because I’m never pleased; I never feel like I deserve what I’ve achieved.
I’m in the camp that says that if you’re to the right of South Dakota on anything, you should use that as a moment to recalibrate your core values.
Just to be able to put on the uniform in general is a blessing, and when it says Red Sox on it, it makes it that much better.
Girls like to see a guy who takes care of himself. It says a lot about him.
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
I think it’s easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I’m a bad person.
Naturalism says that we were not put here for any purpose. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t such thing as purpose. It just means that purpose isn’t imposed from outside. We human beings have the creative ability to give our lives purposes and meanings.
I’ve got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I’m from the South – Tennessee, to be exact – and down there, we’re all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!
I’ve got a young man who works for me who says you don’t need to discover your dreams – you need to recover them.
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
When someone says you can’t do what you know you can do, then you can’t do anything.
President of the United States is you know, our boss, so you know, the President and the First Lady are kinda like the Mom and the Dad of the country. And when your Dad says something you listen.
I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
You want to win. Everyone says, ‘It’s just an honor to be nominated,’ but that’s so not true. You want to win.
Nothing’s impossible, because in the word ‘impossible,’ it says, ‘I’m possible.’ Always know that no matter what, you can always do it, and don’t let anybody tell you differently.
Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?
I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.
If somebody says I’m a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it’s the ultimate compliment.
The moment somebody says ‘this is very risky’ is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are – you are more than what it says on your passport.
The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.
My dad once told me, he was like, ‘The only time you should lie is when someone’s holding a gun to your head and says ‘Okay, lie or I’m going to shoot you.’ And that really stuck with me.
Voters quickly forget what a man says.
Everywhere I go, people ask me for photos and autographs, saying I inspired them to start training. Boris Johnson says his sons started boxing after seeing me – how cool is that?
While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, ‘I want to destroy government.’
I’m not that interested in fashion… When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.
I try to keep my heart and myself available for those little, ‘God moments,’ are what I call them, where someone calls the office and says, ‘Would Ricky be interested in doing this?’
Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren’t.
For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!
Allison Janney’s character in ‘The West Wing’ was so rocking! I am a huge fan of Mary Louis Parker and her character in ‘Weeds.’ My manager says, ‘you have to grow into yourself, Allison’ because all the characters I want to play are, like, 39.
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
