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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Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
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Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
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I'm really focused and obsessed with writing things that are specific. I don't like big rock lyrics - I find them infuriating.
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Don't bore the public with mysterious designs.
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I often say songwriting is like trying to climb down a ladder at night. You put your foot on the next rung and test it out and make sure it holds and then you reach for the next one.
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Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.
