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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Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.
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People who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it.
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I thought that the main problem in the gay community is the lack of funding, I was wrong. The essential quality that this movement needs is courage and an ideal; without an ideal, nothing is possible.
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Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing.
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My wish would be for positive representation and more diversity coming from Hollywood.
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To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.
