David M. Shoup Quotes
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
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Whether it is a super PAC or not, I have been blessed with wealth, and I think I have responsibility to use it properly.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.
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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
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The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
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There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.
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One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall.
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And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.
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You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
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Music is a job, but I figured out ways to get my mind into a place where I could be creative. I actually discovered meditation. It enabled me to clear my mind of all the drama and focus on the music.
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I think of dieting, then I eat pizza.
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Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.
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Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.
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I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down. Because when you're wearing prosthetic makeup, of course, you have to really move your face a lot more to convey things through the makeup.
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Men give love because they want sex. Women give sex because they want love. That's the difference between men and women. Ever notice how when we talk about our love lives, it's always about a man? Singular. All most of us want is one good man. But when men talk, it's about women. Plural. They want as many as they can get.
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The denunciation and smearing of truly gifted people like Rodriguez—people the Chicano community should be proud of—by the self-appointed gatekeepers of Chicano Studies is, alas, an everyday spectacle. Did anyone in the Chicano Studies community even take note when Dana Gioia, who is one of the best poets of his generation and happens to be half Mexican American, was named chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in 2002? No, because he made it on his merits and not by being a victimization hustler.
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To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.
