David Shields Quotes

I used to feel that everything I know I learned through my lifelong struggle with stuttering; I now feel this way about my damn back.

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• The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Islamic
  • Move

• I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • Sex
  • Same

• The most amazing thing about Karl Lagerfeld is that no matter what you ask him, you will always get an interesting answer. We even exchanged notes about ponytails.

  

  Imran Amed
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Amazing

• Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Youth

• What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Going
  • Inside
  • Outside

• I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Good
  • Want
  • Philosophy

• I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Child

• Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Earth
  • Hate

• The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Man
  • Race
  • Animals

• I have never, ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been brought up to talk about my sex life.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Concern
  • Bisexual

• Very ugly things were said about me.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Me
  • Said
  • Ugly

• The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Thought

• We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Work
  • Me
  • Magic

• Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Peace
  • Become
  • Smoke

• One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • World
  • Education
  • Africa

• My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity...then you are going to be surprised.-1985

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • Exercise

• Reason alone does not suffice.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Alone

• Communities in every corner of America struggle to fill nursing vacancies to provide care for everyone who needs it.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • America
  • Struggle

• What you're saying is 'Has a historian the right to offend?' and the answer is very definitely, yes.

  

  David Irving

• If you want to right-size executive power relative to the other branches of government, the best way to do that is to have a healthy Congress in which the two parties are debating, disagreeing, but also occasionally working together to pass legislation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Together

• If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big.

  

  Jeb Hensarling
  • Mind
  • Lost
  • Doubt

• I used to feel that everything I know I learned through my lifelong struggle with stuttering; I now feel this way about my damn back.

  

  David Shields
  • Struggle