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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I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.
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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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Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.
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Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court, voted against school choice for the District of Columbia, endorses an absolutist interpretation of abortion rights. He is bright and he is tough and he belongs elsewhere.
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But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
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I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
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To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.
