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.
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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.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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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.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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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.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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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.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
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There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.
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It's definitely intense to walk away from at the end of each season.
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I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent.
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I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.
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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.
