David A. Clarke, Jr. Quotes
Growing up a career cop, I was always taught, 'Stay out of politics.' I didn't have any particular allegiance to any particular party.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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Women are such incredible people. We're so multifaceted, we're so interesting, and any opportunity to celebrate that - because there's been many years of not being able to - and expose what it's like to be female and how we can be whoever we want to be, and do whatever we want to do, is great.
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You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.
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Really, you just play football; that's all I can do... I don't change. I'm going to always play tough, hard - that's the way I was brought up at Nebraska, where I really learned football from the Pelinis and that staff and continue to play hard, play blue-collar football.
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I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.
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This bidding is just highlighting the value of assets, ... I increased my target for Disney to $27 in January. If it falls, it'll fall only modestly.
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Growing up a career cop, I was always taught, 'Stay out of politics.' I didn't have any particular allegiance to any particular party.
