David Shields Quotes
I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. But I also believe in fair use, public domain, and especially transformation.
Quotes to Explore
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
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Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
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Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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I'm very, very blessed.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
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Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.
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This is a simple story of a battle; such a tale as may be told by a soldier who is no writer to a reader who is no soldier.
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By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
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I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. But I also believe in fair use, public domain, and especially transformation.
