William Prescott Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I know what poverty is.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.
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People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
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Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.
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Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.
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I think people kind of know me, although I am pretty private when it comes to my private life.
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Some people learn by the mistakes of others, but most of us are the others.
