David Shields Quotes
Considering the relatively brief careers of professional athletes, teenagers who are good enough to play at the highest level should be able to exploit that market.
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!
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There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?
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The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
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I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.
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But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.
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Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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Considering the relatively brief careers of professional athletes, teenagers who are good enough to play at the highest level should be able to exploit that market.
