David Drake Quotes
History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.
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It's nice to be needed.
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Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.
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This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
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I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.
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I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.
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The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
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I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.
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I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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When I was 11, I burned a field down by mistake. It was an empty field, probably about 10 acres in size. Me and my friend were lighting firecrackers, and we ended up burning down the entire field. We got found out, and I think I was grounded for about three months.
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All politicians have three ways of expressing themselves - the intimate dialogue that can often be violent and raw, then the dialogue in front of the camera and then big public speeches.
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I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.
