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"Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably have dabbled in drugs. There may be some, judges and lawyers involved in the case could have been involved. So it's a problem in all society."
"I don't judge people. I don't even judge people on 'The Voice.' I'm a coach. I'm there for constructive criticism and to aid and abet and discover new talent."
"It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one 'race' to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination."
"The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation."
"I've lived through the shooting of movie, the editing and every other process along the way, so it's not for me to really judge it. I'll probably look at it again five years from now to get a fresh feel for it."
"It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause."
"The judges say, make it your own, so I just remixed a song if I felt like the piece needed it"
"You can kind of judge how old a film is by the size of the cell phones."
"The role of the judge is simply to decide cases."
"One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices."
"The way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row."
"[Many artists], even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!"
"When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way."
"To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a snappy sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word - is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congregation?"
"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."
"But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past."
"God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge."
"Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what new capabilities become possible is something we have to judge."
"Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk."
"During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive."
