David Stras Quotes
As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.
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In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.
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I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.
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The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold.
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For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
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I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.
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There will be times when we do not agree on every decision or subject, but we should always believe in one another, support one another, and move forward through life together - connected.
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I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward.
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Ever since the first day I arrived in this town, the general impression has been that I'm like a queen holding court on chosen days.
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The nurse is the nightTo wake to, to die in: and the day I live,The world and its life are her dreams.
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Alas! A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections - a mere heart of stone.
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Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing!
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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
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Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.
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The next movement is still in the factory.
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So much of improv can be really long, and that's kind of what makes it funny.
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As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.
