David Shields Quotes
I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or memoir. It blurs boundaries, plays fast and loose with the truth - not to be silly, whimsical or lazy, but to get greater purchase on what it feels like to be alive.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
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If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
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I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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At Harvard, I worked for some time as a researcher in a lab for computer graphics and spatial analysis, which is one of the birthplaces for what we do.
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When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.
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I'm a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn't really see myself in that. Not that I didn't grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I don't know - I just never put myself there.
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jazz and Neo-Plasticism are highly revolutionary phenomena: they are destructive constructive. They do not destroy the actual content of form, but rather deepen form only in order to elevate it to a new order. They break the bonds of 'form as individuality' in order to make possible a universal unity.
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You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.
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I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.
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I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or memoir. It blurs boundaries, plays fast and loose with the truth - not to be silly, whimsical or lazy, but to get greater purchase on what it feels like to be alive.
