Charles J. Shields Quotes
In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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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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Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.
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Don't let other people tell you what you want.
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School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
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You may laugh of the idea of the good will of others in Hollywood, but it's no laughing matter if you don't have it.
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Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all evils and afflictions as well as all kinds of happiness of man, whether they concern one individual or a community, are distributed according to justice; they are the result of strict judgement that admits no wrong whatever.
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Nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das LebenDer täglich sie erobern muß.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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(Eating meat) is really on the same moral level as child abuse. It’s the same thing. Animals are like children, they look to us for protection. We should protect them. I really feel quite smug about mad cow disease and foot and mouth and so forth, and I just think ‘Well, what do you expect? People have been saying it for years.'
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When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.
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When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball to the best of my abilities. I get to go around the world and not only share the game but also my philanthropic work. Building a hospital in the Congo is one of the proudest achievements of my life.
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Recently a young journalist came to interview me about what I was doing the day war broke out. During the course of the interview I recounted the deaths of my only brother, my husband's only brother, a brother in law and my four best friends. "So," she said, did the war affect you in any way?
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I am a big fan of Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He's the voice of science and scientific thinking in the United States and the world. He's the most visible proponent of scientific thinking, and he's very unflinching about it. He knows that it's correct and vouches for it in a very intelligent and very firm way, which I really appreciate.
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In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.
