David Shields Quotes
Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.
David Shields
Quotes to Explore
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If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
Saint Augustine
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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
Gary Clark Jr.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
Rachel Bloom
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
Yoko Ono
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
Maggie Nelson
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When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'
Kat Graham
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
Flannery O'Connor
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If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
Valentina Tereshkova
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
Bashar al-Assad
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You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
Gabriel Iglesias
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He had no picture of her. She would be a memory that would fade as her warmth would fade, but would fade over the years, and he would forget the passion that gave life to this face.
Bernard Cornwell
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My favorite dish is bibimbap, which is composed of various vegetables, steamed and pickled, and meat toppings over a bed of rice.
Mary Gordon
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Holidays: Imagine if the great holidays and seasons of the Christian year were redesigned to emphasize love. Advent would be the season of preparing our hearts to receive God’s love. Epiphany would train us to keep our eyes open for expressions of compassion in our daily lives. Lent would be an honest self-examination of our maturity in love and a renewal of our commitment to grow in it. Instead of giving up chocolate or coffee for Lent, we would stop criticizing or gossiping about or interrupting others. Maundy Thursday would refocus us on the great and new commandment; Good Friday would present the suffering of crucifixion as the suffering of love; Holy Saturday would allow us to lament and grieve the lack of love in our lives and world; and Easter would celebrate the revolutionary power of death-defying love. Pentecost could be an “altar call” to be filled with the Spirit of love, and “ordinary time” could be “extraordinary time” if it involved challenges to celebrate and express love in new ways—to new people, to ourselves, to the earth, and to God—including time to tell stories about our experiences of doing so.
Brian D. McLaren
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Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.
David Shields
