David Shields Quotes
I really love that idea of the essay as an investigation. That's all anyone's life is.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.
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All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.
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If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
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I used to adore my old man because he was always so kind. That's one of the most beautiful things I have in my life - the way my father and mother were. And my father was a real ugly man. So it doesn't matter if you look like a gorilla. You see, dogs like us, we ain't such dogs as we think we are.
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Art is a luxury but also a necessity.
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I really love that idea of the essay as an investigation. That's all anyone's life is.
