David K. Shipler Quotes
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.
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And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
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I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.
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I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.
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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
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'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.
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Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.
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I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.
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How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
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I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
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The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.'
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My individual way of taking on the burdens of history has changed. I don't think of them only as burdens; I think they are honorable.
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We don't give importance to Page 3 or to appear at all the events. Our focus is on our kids and our home.
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See, we started out with a foundation of blues. But then we added people like Miles Davis and John Coltrane to the mix and gave rock n' roll a much more complex structure. It made it possible to play more than three chords.
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Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.
