Bill Drayton Quotes

We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.

Bill Drayton

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'The Story Of A Marriage' was initially a short story I wrote, and before that, it was a family story. It was a story that a relative of mine told me about herself in the '50s, and it was a story that no one else in my family believes, and it might not be true.

Andrew Sean Greer

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The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

John Leguizamo

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My belief is that the nation-state remains the one entity that can function, the one entity that can demand sacrifice from its constituents in the national interest.

Jeff Sessions

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My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

Jeff Gannon

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My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

Stephen Bayley

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Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

Russell Baker

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I'd grown up in the U.K., where the surveillance apparatus went into place in the 1970s in response to the Troubles with the IRA. When I was a kid, we moved to Chicago, and I was surprised to see you could live in a large city in which you didn't have cameras on every street corner.

Jonathan Nolan

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When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

DeForest Soaries

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Arthur Bloch

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Global growth and development that is strong, sustainable, and inclusive requires the challenges of inequality to be met head-on.

Winnie Byanyima

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I guess I'd like to get old and die, in that order.

Preston Manning

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'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs.

Tina Brown

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