David K. Shipler Quotes

Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.

David K. Shipler

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• I've always been a rough kid.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Always
  • Kid
  • Rough

• I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Think

• You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Vision

• 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.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• 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.

  

  Randy Couture
  • You
  • Play
  • Find

• I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Women
  • Gay
  • Say

• 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.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Man
  • Balance
  • Fate

• I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • High
  • Play
  • First

• 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.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Amazing

• Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Rest
  • Attitude

• There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Good Writing

• 'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • City
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• 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.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Done
  • Same
  • Integrity

• 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.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • True
  • High
  • Freedom

• I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Broken
  • Young

• One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Future
  • Young
  • India

• Away, the partial loveThat ‘boldens Nature to sit aboveHer Maker!

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Nature

• 'Natural selection and the emergence of mind' dialectica Vol. 32 (1978), p. 339-355; republished in Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge (1987) edited by Gerard Radnitzky and W. W. Bartley, III

  

  Karl Popper
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Wind
  • Doctors

• A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Positive
  • Psychology

• I did an episode on the TV show 'Awake,' and I thought, 'Wow, that's really hard.' To do that so fast and to do that, if it's very successful, for nine months out of the year, for a bunch of good years, that's challenging. But, it was interesting. It's a good show. You'd have to have a very good character, I guess.

  

  Ayelet Zurer
  • Good
  • Character
  • Interesting

• Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.

  

  David K. Shipler