William A. Drake Quotes
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
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I'm very wary of news on television.
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I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
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Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
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I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.
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Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
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Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.
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I like football, but I think this is a very personal matter. I don't see any negatives for some Russian rich man to buy a football club.
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The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.
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My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.
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I, too, have stars/ and blue depths.
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To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.
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Have caviar if you like, but it tastes like herring to me.
