David K. Shipler Quotes
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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 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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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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One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.
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Away, the partial loveThat ‘boldens Nature to sit aboveHer Maker!
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'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
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What does it matter if China’s economy grows when there are no basic protections for its citizens?
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Since becoming aware of the need to be inclusive, I've tried to make my stories broader and more representative of our world.
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Now we live in this DVD, iTunes, Hulu age, and show creators and networks are realizing that and letting shows develop on those terms rather than 'We gotta just punch it week to week, man.' Now they're like, 'What will happen if someone watches the entire show?'
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A lot of the stuff that I say doesn't even make TV because it gets cut out. So if you're at the live events you get to hear what I have to say, but if you're watching on TV, you're only getting about 50% of it.
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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.
