David Shields Quotes
I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.David Shields
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
Larry Holmes -
In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
Maggie Carey -
The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
Ilan Stavans -
It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
Kate Christensen -
I don't look at myself as suffering.
A. J. Langer -
Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
Carl Forti
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
Babe Ruth -
I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
R. L. Stine -
At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
Gary Oldman -
I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.
Kate Jackson -
I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
Natalia Kills -
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
Jack Nicholson -
I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
Daniel Craig -
I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.
Ed Harris -
I eat a bit too much; my teeth aren't perfect; I've got eye bags. I look like a normal 39-year-old woman - but in England, no one minds that.
Olivia Colman -
I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.
Lady Starlight
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I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.
Dan Quisenberry -
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
Yoko Ono -
There is a potential to be a big explosion of what spaceflight is gonna mean to just an everyday person in the near future. I think it's very hopeful for our young people: all the exciting things that they could be doing in the future relative to space and space exploration.
Peggy Whitson -
My friends still see me as the girl they went to school with. We're very much home bunnies.
Kaya Scodelario -
I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.
David Shields