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.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Inspiration

• My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Me
  • Dad

• If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Fans

• I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Past
  • Present
  • Connect

• I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Age
  • Artist
  • Young

• Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Literature
  • Enlightenment

• 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.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • World
  • Culture
  • German

• For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Years
  • States
  • Many

• 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.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Teacher
  • Emotions
  • Tastes

• I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Fly
  • Just
  • Los Angeles

• 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.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Past

• The nurse is the nightTo wake to, to die in: and the day I live,The world and its life are her dreams.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• Alas! A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections - a mere heart of stone.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Heart
  • Wishes

• Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing!

  

  Arthur Miller

• 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!

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • World
  • May
  • Criticism

• In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after someone named Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, 'Breakfast of Champions' and immediately fell in love.

  

  Jess Walter
  • School
  • Book
  • High

• Colin Kaepernick is one of the leaders in the movement for black lives. His role as an athlete and activist is not only motivating but inspiring.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Black
  • Athlete

• Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

  

  Chuck Noll
  • Game

• For one year, I was Keith Mitchell Coogan on my headshots. The next year, I was just Keith Coogan. And I have gone by that ever since, maybe 1984 or 1985. That is my mother's maiden name, and it was out of reverence for my grandfather.

  

  Keith Coogan
  • Mother

• The thing itself photographed becomes less interesting when you go back to it years later but I think the photograph becomes more important later when the reality has passed.

  

  George A Tice
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Interesting

• I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority

  

  Killer Mike
  • Human
  • Beings
  • Justify

• I immediately doubt things if I become satisfied with them. Being satisfied by something is a real danger for me. I hope I never lose that. That would be death.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Real
  • Hope
  • Death

• The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Law
  • Government
  • Privacy

• As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.

  

  David Stras