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 have a couture body.
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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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I think that's why I gravitated toward slightly broader... ummm, more conceptual kinds of movies, Underworld and Van Helsing. That was as much as I could actually give. But you're actually more of an animated figure. It does go against the grain, as an actor.
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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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Quod siquis vera vitam ratione gubernet, divitiae grandes homini sunt vivere parvoaequo animo; neque enim est umquam penuria parvi.
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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 hope I'm worthy in my dying. I hope I can maintain myself - that I wouldn't become pathetic and needy, and the worst part of myself come out in adversity. But I'm not afraid of it. It'd be such a silly thing to do! To ruin the life you have by fearing its ending.
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Moving forward, I will be committed to building a stronger team so that the GOP can compete and win statewide in 2018, including the possibility of being a candidate in that cycle.
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To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.
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And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.
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The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will.
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John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.
