David Shields Quotes

I hope readers will think that 'The Thing About Life' is beautifully patterned, a tapestry.

David Shields

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• We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • School
  • Kids
  • Hope

• You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • Life
  • Good
  • Hope

• My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Life
  • Work
  • She

• In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Done

• I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Country
  • Parents

• I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Truth
  • Actions
  • Consequences

• Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Unique

• I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Death

• I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.

  

  Vanity
  • Like
  • Making
  • Musical

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Star
  • Show
  • Ship

• I believe in forgiveness.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Believe
  • Forgiveness

• Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Father
  • Always

• I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Dreams

• It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Wish
  • Always
  • Actor

• I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own emotions with the music and it makes them ponder their own life a lot. And then they start to question: Am I happy in my work? Am I happy in my relationships? What am I striving for?

  

  Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• For the more rapid the growth of a spirit of industrial invention and improvement, of social and political reform, the wider becomes the gap between stationary and progressive nations, and the more dangerous it is to remain on the further side.

  

  Friedrich List
  • Political
  • Growth
  • Improvement

• I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • College
  • Mom
  • Study

• I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • Pretty
  • Ego

• I hope readers will think that 'The Thing About Life' is beautifully patterned, a tapestry.

  

  David Shields
  • Life
  • Hope