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.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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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 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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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.
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I am tired of being in an industry that doesn't appreciate me.
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I would like to give acting a go. I studied it for a long time; I just want to make sure when I do it I am able to put in as much effort as I do to modeling.
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Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun!
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People work hard for their money, and they expect services for the dollars they put into the city.
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The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.
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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.
