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Does having a wife and kids change your act? Yes, but only in the best way. It gives you weight and authority. It also makes you closer to the audience because the audience is married and has kids.

~Chris Rock

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A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.

~Christian Bale

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If the League were real, today, they'd most likely be sued by every person they ever saved. They'd be subpoenaed by every authority in every jurisdiction imaginable; hearings upon hearings. There'd be waves of accolades followed by tsunamis of boos from social media.

~Christopher Priest

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I quit comics in 1988 and trained as a bus driver. I used to drive those big Greyhound coaches out of New York Port Authority and down to Princeton, New Jersey. It was, hands down, the best job I ever had, and I profoundly regret having left it. I kept that job the entire time I was on staff at DC Comics in the '90s.

~Christopher Priest

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It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.

~Cindy Sheehan

Topics: Able Authority Bodies Break Country Immoral Laws Leaders Lie Maniacs Might Our Over People Prison Put Resist Soon Spirits Up Us You

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Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

~Claire Danes

Topics: Always Authority City Confused Encouraged Growing Growing Up New New York New York City Patriotism Question Think Up York I Think

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The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.

~Clare Short

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Certain characteristics about 'Marbury v. Madison' are, I think, indisputable. Marbury was the first Supreme Court decision ever to strike down an act of Congress as unconstitutional. Marbury stands for the authority of the Supreme Court to have and to exercise that power.

~Cliff Sloan

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You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.

~Colson Whitehead

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It's not necessarily the most compelling thing for a liberal like myself to be making an impassioned plea for the divine rights of kings and for observing the hierarchy of order, of class and authority.

~Corey Stoll

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