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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I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
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I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
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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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I love to be surrounded by nature.
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It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing.
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I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
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I love it when other people can come up with ideas and tell me what to do.
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The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought
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I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.
