Mark Shields Quotes
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
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I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.
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During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'
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I grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit.
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas.
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I voted yes for ANWR, and I would support those in other places, environmentally sound.
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If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.
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Lots of people call me Dave, my mum calls me David, my wife calls me Dave, I don't really notice what people call me.
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Time is what you have left.. ..you just march with it and use it the best you can.
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If we were to expand Medicaid, for every uninsured person we would cover, we'd kick more than one person out of private insurance or remove their opportunity to get private insurance. We're going to have too many people in the cart rather than pulling the cart.
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I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.
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We're not eliminated till we're eliminated. I just feel good about not being eliminated. We get to live another day.
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You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place.
