Conservatives who believe that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the plain meaning of its language and the original intent of the Framers have long been troubled by the court's decisions expanding the commerce clause to authorize Congress to regulate the most local of matters within a state's borders.
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
I came back to my original wife. I came back to her after I made a few boo-boos in my life. Coming back to her was good for me, good for her and good for the children.
I've always found a way to make my way, and now I've had the fortune of being hired by a great company - Chrysler Corporation - one of the original Big Three.
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'
Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.
I am the original... Those are my disciples.
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.
All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
In a way, all Scandinavian movies are descendants of the original Scandinavian Christian-metaphor movie, Danish director Carl Dreyer's 1928 'The Passion of Joan of Arc,' one of the seven or eight best films ever made and impossible to watch more than once.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.
Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.
The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
I think people forget that to be on the A list you first had to go through the original graded Parliamentary Selection Board. I did that and then like everyone else had the further interviews to get onto the A list.
I specialize in early homes, and what I care about the most is renovating a home and taking it back to its original construction idea.
By 'justice', I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals united, without which men would return to their original state of barbarity. All punishments which exceed the necessity of preserving this bond are, in their nature, unjust.
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
People say I'm the original Don Draper. I'm not Don Draper.
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
If you're entering into fashion in an original way, you have to know your craft, and you have to know your history. You have to be obsessively dedicated. You have to be relentless about making it happen. It doesn't take a bank. It takes passion, love, timing, and luck.
Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.
