David K. Shipler Quotes
Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.
Quotes to Explore
-
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
-
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
-
There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
-
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
-
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
-
The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
-
I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
-
My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
-
Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.
-
Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
-
Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
-
I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
-
Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
-
Even though the moniker 'Vanilla ISIS' is tongue in cheek, it is a reminder to avoid constantly framing the concept of terrorism through an Islam-centric lens.
-
That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
-
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
-
Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
-
Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
-
Society would be a lot better if people watched Hulu's original programming and not just 'Mozart in the Jungle,' which everyone is watching, apparently.
-
I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.
-
It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.
-
Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
-
McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on the battlefields of the 1991 Gulf War and of the Iraq War, but also holds a Ph.D. in history.
-
Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.
