David A. Clarke, Jr. Quotes

I'm result-oriented, and our neighborhoods will never prosper if we don't keep criminals from victimizing families.

David A. Clarke, Jr.

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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.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • She
  • Friends

• I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Stop

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Art
  • Age

• The apartheid system renounces no violence.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • System
  • Apartheid

• 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!'

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Character
  • America
  • Guy

• At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Day
  • End

• Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Enjoy

• I've got loads of nieces and nephews.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Got
  • Nephews
  • Nieces

• You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Fight
  • Radical

• 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.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Different
  • Aging

• America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • American
  • America

• 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.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Age
  • Young

• 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.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Opportunity
  • Video
  • Website

• I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Think
  • Me
  • Grooming

• 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.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Together
  • Hand
  • Simple

• 'After my election, I have more flexibility', spoken March 26, 2012 to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev while in Korea.

  

  Barack Obama
  • March

• Some of his neighbors found out what I was doing and offered him fatherly advice. It was dangerous to educate slaves, they warned. Education made blacks dissatisfied with slavery. It spoiled them for field work. The Methodist minister said it made them disobedient, made them want more than the Lord intended them to have.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Work
  • Education
  • Advice

• I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Kids
  • Ego

• I grew up a nerd and now I'm a geek? I don't know.

  

  Carrie Keagan
  • Nerd
  • Geek

• Were there really this many women in 1985 saying to their husbands, 'Gee, honey, I'd love to have random strangers masturbate to a jpeg image of me deepthroating a titanium dildo, but there's no medium for that. Guess we'll have to watch 'Falcon Crest.'

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Women
  • Random

• I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.

  

  Jane Elliot
  • Way
  • Nuts
  • Bolts

• I'm result-oriented, and our neighborhoods will never prosper if we don't keep criminals from victimizing families.

  

  David A. Clarke, Jr.