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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We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.
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Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.
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I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.
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The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.
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Budget cuts if you're not rich, tax cuts if you are. Less money for those who don't have any and more to those who do. That's how President Fredo says we're going to get out of the giant deficit hole he's dug. You can't put it any more simply. Rich people richer. Poor people poorer.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Leather and lace is such a sexy combination.
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John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.
