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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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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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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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
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I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.
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All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.
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Energy consumption has to be managed by an intelligent grid when it comes to highly populated areas. Smart-grid technologies allow for the integration of renewable energy into the grid as well as energy from distributed sources.
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You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live, but it was a good investment, because it was going to keep up with inflation or get ahead of inflation, and it was just - that was America.
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I've been through legislation creating a dozen national parks, and there's always the same pattern. When you first propose a park, and you visit the area and present the case to the local people, they threaten to hang you. You go back in five years and they think it's the greatest thing that ever happened.
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In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.
