David Shields Quotes
All human beings have bodies. All bodies are mortal. Yours, too, is one of these bodies.
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I put pressure on myself all the time. I felt it so much with 'Sax,' but I had to just let go and enjoy it.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
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I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
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The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.
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There's not a blueprint for me to follow.
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I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
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People hate searching.
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It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What percentage of the populations in countries engaged in the 14-year effort in Afghanistan could even name the three main Taliban groups with whom their soldiers have been engaged?
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September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
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I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
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If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'
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Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.
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Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.
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I don't know how to thank everyone for all their help.
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Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.
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If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.
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The lack of brotherhood among believers themselves has paralyzed the church in front of the skepticism and immorality of the world; but when we go back in simple faith to the one great fact of our redemption, we shall be both brought into closer fellowship with each other, and stimulated to more tender regard for the salvation of men.
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Filming is about continuing to be alert and to think, and I find it quite exhausting.
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The tax code is weighted toward the ultra-wealthy and ultra-wealthy corporations and has created an offshore aristocracy of people who can afford to hire an army of accountants and lawyers. This shifts the tax burden to small businesses, entrepreneurs, and others.
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I haven't had a great deal of luck with my career, have I? Maybe because I'm not pushy enough.
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All human beings have bodies. All bodies are mortal. Yours, too, is one of these bodies.
