David Stras Quotes
Empirical evidence collected and analyzed by political scientists demonstrates that judicial pensions are the most important factor in a Justice's decision to retire, far more important than the party of the President or which political party has control of the Senate.David Stras
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
B. B. King -
I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
Karin Slaughter -
Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
Sam Smith -
My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
Nathan Lane -
I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
Zubin Mehta
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
Harriet Walter -
If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
Olivia Wilde -
The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
Irina Shayk -
I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
FKA twigs -
There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
Daniel Craig -
The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
Walter Kirn
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The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.
Abraham Lincoln -
It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.
E. O. Wilson -
I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
Nas -
I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy. I eat what I want, really, because I think that while you're working out you can eat better.
Natasha Bedingfield -
Society puts so much pressure on girls to look a certain way.
Halima Aden -
While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.
Edmund White
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It's summertime and the living is easy. Fish are jumping and the cotton is high. Your daddy's rich and your mama's good -looking. Hush, little baby don't you cry.
Sam Cooke -
I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.
Alan Taylor -
Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
Paul Auster -
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
Joshua Foer -
I have become the poster child for calling all the Trump people racists, when, in fact, I don't think they're all racists, but they tolerated racism. And that's a problem.
Van Jones -
Empirical evidence collected and analyzed by political scientists demonstrates that judicial pensions are the most important factor in a Justice's decision to retire, far more important than the party of the President or which political party has control of the Senate.
David Stras