David Stras Quotes
Many studies or theories by political scientists fit some subset of cases that a court decides, but literally no theory can account for all of them, particularly when it comes to studying a complex institution like the Supreme Court.

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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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Women are sacred.
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A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in one of his essays: "Reality exerts pressure on the imagination." Inevitably what is omnipresent in the culture exerts its pressure on our imaginations to respond to it, even if indirectly. But in this case the backdrop of 9/11, coincident with the breakup of a marriage, the finding of new love, some kind of personal cataclysm... all of those were forces informing the poems in some way.
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I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.
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I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.
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If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.
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There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.
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Many studies or theories by political scientists fit some subset of cases that a court decides, but literally no theory can account for all of them, particularly when it comes to studying a complex institution like the Supreme Court.