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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When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
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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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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.
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In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years.
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If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.
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Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
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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.
