Derek Drouin Quotes
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.
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Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.
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The best things happen in the dark.
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For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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I'm not one that really soaks up the limelight. I'm OK with kind of escaping it.
