Mark Shields Quotes
In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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I've just had a little boy, and my wife and I called him Elliott because 'E.T.' sort of saved my life because that film is absolutely about something being out there that's greater than yourself.
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In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future liberally minded paper I was bound to write.
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A lot of things in my career have happened by chance.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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Only when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired do any of us do something different.
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In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.
