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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#by the time #change #critics #during #everybody

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#blur #fans #get #line #players

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.


Lascelles Abercrombie


#broadly #epic #epic poetry #independently #invented

Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know.


John Abizaid


#after #always #any #capturing #cell

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.


John Abizaid


#experience #hardest #know #our #own

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.


F. Murray Abraham


#comfortable #did #having #i #interesting

No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.


Floyd Abrams


#burden #cases #country #gives #high

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.


Floyd Abrams


#bad #broad #courts #facts #forth

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.


Floyd Abrams


#case #got #government #how #i

It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.


Floyd Abrams


#facts #game #i #i think #judges






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