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Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world -- Hunter S. Thompson
I was drafted during the Korean War. -- Clint Eastwood
Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days. -- Jack Youngblood
An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger. -- Lou Holtz
Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities. -- Mike Quigley
The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here. -- Derek Jeter
The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men. -- Andy Rooney
In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance. -- Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota. -- Randy Moss
Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso. -- Guy Lafleur
Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word. -- Jon Postel
The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school. -- Robert Shapiro
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. -- Pierre Trudeau
Way back in 2000, the EPA was poised, and, in fact, had drafted a rule, to specially regulate pollution - water pollution and other types of pollution - from power plants, but the energy industry pushed back pretty significantly. -- Charles Duhigg
For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden. -- Karl Malone
I do not care whether you're a Democrat or you're a Republican or an independent. We must pull for the people who are wearing the uniform of the armed forces. These people weren't drafted. They enlisted, because they believe. -- Tommy Lasorda
I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?' -- Clint Eastwood
I ended up getting drafted by the Colorado Rockies on June 8, 2010 and the next day, my dad passed away, in June 9, 2010. So I'm at the biggest high of my life on June 8th. And the next day, June 9th, he's gone. -- Russell Wilson
I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all. -- Dwight Gooden
The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades. -- F. W. de Klerk
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting. -- Alan Brien
The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat. -- Robert Jay Lifton
I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership - well, I was drafted into the Waffen-SS and didn't exactly volunteer, which was just as idiotic. I wanted to be on the submarines and then ended up with the Waffen-SS. -- Gunter Grass
By the time I left college, I had won every award you could win - I was Mr. Man! Then I got drafted by the Giants, and you step in that locker room, and you feel inferior in every way. You just have to stick around long enough to give yourself the opportunity to build your confidence. -- Michael Strahan
I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations. -- Harold Feinstein
What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league. -- Walter Dean Myers
Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending. -- Peter Guber
To all the fantasy owners who drafted me: You're welcome. -- Peyton Manning
Old enough to be drafted but not old enough to vote. -- Alice Cooper
People say I'll be drafted in the first round, maybe even higher. -- Craig Heyward
Half the guys drafted in front of me are working at Target right now, -- Maurice Jones-Drew
The construct of a dashboard, first of all should be drafted by the founder. -- Keith Rabois
I feel like I was drafted to play football, not carry another player's pads. -- Dez Bryant
Reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted. -- Joe Haldeman
If my team won a national title and no one got drafted, I'd be disappointed. -- John Calipari
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. -- Stanley Marion Garn
Happiness is seeing your son drafted the same day he's been accepted to an expensive college. -- Johnny Carson
I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army. -- Rick James
I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted. -- Kevin Johnson
All the people that you see on television defending Donald Trump have not been drafted into it. -- Chris Hayes
I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war. -- Gavin Hood
If nominated, I will not accept; if drafted, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve -- William Tecumseh Sherman
It was a dream come true to be drafted by a pro team and have the opportunity to play. -- Jamie Moyer
Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink. -- Jack Kerouac
Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation. -- Mary Robinson
People don't get drafted into being housewives. It's a voluntary experience, so people are putting themselves into this situation voluntarily. -- Andy Cohen
I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better. -- Nick Johnson
I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for. -- Julius Erving
I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp. -- Louis Gossett Jr.
Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings. -- George V. Higgins
I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp. -- Louis Gossett Jr.
Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team. -- Bob Cousy
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003. -- David Cone
The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought. -- Al MacInnis
the poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight ... -- Marian Wright Edelman
Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's. -- Bob Gunton
Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats. -- Constance Baker Motley
[John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their state constitutions, most drafted in 1776. -- Gordon S. Wood
The Steelers drafted guys who were bigger, stronger and faster than me, but they never found one who could take my job away from me. -- Jack Lambert
Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more traditional roles. -- Erin McKean
That's part of the reason Rex drafted me, because I value this job. It's my life. If somebody wanted to take that away from me, it's personal. -- Mark Sanchez
When I was first drafted, I was just happy that any team wanted to take me, but it was the Red Wings, and that made it better. -- Henrik Zetterberg
I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.' -- Zoe Tapper
In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress. -- Tim Murphy
Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself. -- Gaines Adams
But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20. -- Mel Gibson
I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying. -- Casey Kasem
I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it." So I went ahead and drafted it. -- Emma Donoghue
I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam. -- Thomas Steinbeck
Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there"¦the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted. -- Joe Haldeman
When I came into the league, once a team drafted you, they owned you forever. If they didn't like the clothes you wore, or the car you drove, they could blackball you. -- Oscar Robertson
My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience things that have contributed to my maturity and personal growth. -- Dwyane Wade
Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted. -- Carol Bellamy
I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me. -- Adam Oates
I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't -- Tom Berenger
I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't. -- Tom Berenger
At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed. -- Klaus Kinski
I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much. -- Nick Ferguson
I was so happy when I found out I had been drafted by the Yankees. Growing up in Taiwan, I had heard so much about the Yankees but had never even seen them on TV. -- Chien-Ming Wang
I would enjoy the fact that I had a team that won a national title, but I would be disappointed that none of the kids got drafted because that's not how it's supposed to work. -- John Calipari

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