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Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth whether administered by judges, juries, or administrative officials and especially one that puts the burden of proving truth on the speaker. -- William J. Brennan
If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. -- Barbara Walters
I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere. -- Kent McCord
Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much. -- Gia Coppola
Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the center of the social media experience. -- Michael Perlis
In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones. -- Steven Weber
The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales. -- Jonathan Dimbleby
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. -- Junot Diaz
It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative. -- Brian Lamb
Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative. -- Christy Carlson Romano
Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics. -- John Bercow
I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position. -- Dee Dee Myers
Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find is authoritative, accurate or even vaguely true. -- Howard Rheingold
As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy. -- Nursultan Nazarbayev
A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job. -- Patrick Ness
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one. -- John Lahr
Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done. -- Peter T. King
The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order. -- Anna Garlin Spencer
The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government. -- John L. Lewis
All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose common acceptance of Jewish or Christian revelation, even if these public norms are consistent with a particular community's revelation and the authoritative teachings it derives from that revelation. -- David Novak
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life. -- J. M. Coetzee
Any consideration of the story we call 'Cinderella' for simplicity's sake must acknowledge that 'Cinderella' has had a dizzying array of personae over hundreds of years, in several cultures. There is no one authoritative tale of 'Cinderella,' only a hall of mirrors with a different face in each reflection. -- Marie Rutkoski
No one has to be taught to trust in themselves. No one has to be taught that what you experience inside yourself is more authoritative than what comes to you externally, even if it comes from God. Since the Fall, it has been part of our character to look within ourselves. -- Michael Horton
The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today. -- Ian Caldwell
One of my proudest achievements is that when an authoritative book about Hungarian literature came out about a decade ago, there was a little article about me which said I was a Hungarian writer but pretending not to be. Bearing in mind I can hardly write a cheque in Hungarian, I was delighted to be included in the pantheon of Hungarian writers. -- Tibor Fischer
The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers. -- Scott Turow
The Bible is the authoritative Word of God and contains all truth. -- William J. Clinton
Remember: the Bible is our only authoritative source of information about Heaven. -- Billy Graham
I really believe the purpose of Scripture is to give us this authoritative handbook. -- Max Lucado
The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything. -- Cornelius Van Til
No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. -- Carl Rogers
Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law. -- L. Ron Hubbard
A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. -- Patrick Ness
For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God. -- Kevin DeYoung
Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child. -- John Broadbent
Men aging makes them look more authoritative, accomplished, distinguished. Sadly, it's not that way for women, and they will tell you. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Men aging makes them look more authoritative, accomplished, distinguished. Sadly, it's not that way for women, and they will tell you. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. -- Bill Vaughan
This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it. -- Diana Vreeland
Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality. -- Frederick William Robertson
All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings. -- David Bowie
It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print. -- Andrew Ferguson
Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and light. -- Ken Macrorie
In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating. -- Randal Marlin
For every well-attested, heavily researched, and eminently authoritative argument made about the historical Jesus, there is an equally well-attested, equally researched, and equally authoritative argument opposing it. -- Reza Aslan
Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative. -- Christy Carlson Romano
Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer. -- Richard Holt Hutton
The Hebrew Bible defines Judaism. It's certainly true that the Talmudic interpretations become authoritative and normative, but they are interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. So that is always there. -- Frank Moore Cross
The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it. -- Henry Parry Liddon
From all human oracles, however self-confident, we turn at last to the inspired Word, where instead of ambiguous and untrustworthy utterances, we find teachings distinct and definite, authoritative and infallible. -- Arthur Tappan Pierson
Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative. -- Edwin Newman

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