David A. Clarke, Jr. Quotes
I'm result-oriented, and our neighborhoods will never prosper if we don't keep criminals from victimizing families.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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The apartheid system renounces no violence.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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I've got loads of nieces and nephews.
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You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
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Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.
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People know me for up – tempo songs because of my hits.
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America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
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From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there lived another Orhan so much like me he could pass for my twin, even my double.
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Back in 2005-2006 when Tudou and Youku were founded, we saw the inflection point with the opportunity to build the leading PC-based video website.
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I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
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There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
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'After my election, I have more flexibility', spoken March 26, 2012 to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev while in Korea.
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My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.
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A Tribe Called Quest was one of those things where it was supposed to be about growth. When I say 'growth,' I don't just mean with our sound or our product, but Tribe was supposed to grow as individuals.
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One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.
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The likelihood of any success in court which is not a scientific body is very low.
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I'm result-oriented, and our neighborhoods will never prosper if we don't keep criminals from victimizing families.
