William A. Drake Quotes
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
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I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
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I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.
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I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.
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Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.
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This federal welfare system is large, fragmented, and growing in cost. This system may have started out with good intentions, but it has become a confusing maze of programs that are overlapping, duplicative, poorly coordinated and difficult to administer.
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In my youngest days, the nuns at my grammar school drummed into us that we were in this world to make it a better place - not just for ourselves, but for other people, too. So from the very beginning, I've been driven by this idea that we have to make a difference, and it's one of the reasons I went into law in the first place.
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I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.
