Dave Clarkin:
CLASS OF 1993
University of IllinoisClass of 1993
Urbana, IL
Dave's Story
Dave is from Park Ridge, Illinois. Dave is married with Rebecca Clarkin. Dave later attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Biology, Political Science). Dave works(ed) at Illinois State Treasurer's Office, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
Music Dave likes includes Eva Cassidy, John Lee Hooker, Niel Young. Books Dave likes include The Once and Future King, The Life Of Pi, Living in Truth. Movies Dave likes include Red (2010 film), One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Cool Hand Luke. TV shows Dave likes include Morning Joe, John Stewart, Morning Joe.
One of Dave's favorite quotes is:""I'm not sure what qualifies anyone for the presidency and history doesn't provide any guidelines. We've had remarkable variety - soldiers, college professors, movie actors, haberdashers. Pampered sons of wealth and privilege (some of whom gave us our most progressive social programs) and one president whose wife taught him to read.
"What we haven't had yet is a black or a woman, an American Indian or a candidate of Oriental descent....Expand for more
But we will some day.
"Maybe even in my lifetime, but certainly in the lifetimes of my children and grandchildren.
"I'd like to be around when it happens, to see an American electorate put their money where their mouth is in terms of the national ideals to which we so often pay lip service."
- Carol Clarkin, columnist, 1988
"Be a promise keeper, not a promise maker."
"Work hard, play hard." - E.W. Mitchell
"I'll burn that bridge when I get to it."
"The temptation
To take the precious things we have apart
To see how they work
Must be resisted for they never fit together again." - Billy Bragg, Must I Paint You a Picture?
"There is no 'me' in 'team'."
"What a piece of work is man." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
"Nice, nice, very nice. So many people in the same device." - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
"All my life I kept trying to go up in society. Where everything higher up was legal. But the higher I go, the crookeder it becomes. Where the hell does it end?" - Michael Corleone
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More about Dave:"Crazy. Not like a fox.".
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