Mark Shields Quotes
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.
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School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
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I love being a part of the country-music community.
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What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. There aren't set boundaries, like an office, where you go and work. For me, the work is always on my mind.
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No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland.
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The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.
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Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but one.
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The CIA and the Mafia are in cahoots
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I remember when I drove into Notre Dame, getting ready for the first day of work. I had an electrical charge go up my back because I realized all of a sudden that I was responsible for the traditions that the Knute Rocknes and the Frank Leahys had set, and what Notre Dame stood for.
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I just want to do something challenging.
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I love food and I love living.
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We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.
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Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.
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Everything I've done, I've made up. Some of that might have been right; most of it was probably wrong.
Biz Stone -
I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.
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Madonna looked amazing. I can't believe she's 89 and looks like that.
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The only man for whom Hitler had ‘unqualified respect’ was ‘Stalin the genius’, and while in the case of Stalin and the Russian regime we do not… have the rich documentary material that is available for Germany, we nevertheless know since Khrushchev’s speech before the Twentieth Party Congress that Stalin trusted only one man and that was Hitler.
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John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.
