David Shields Quotes

Nothing really changes: the individual's ability to project his message or throw his weight around remains minuscule.

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• The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Movie
  • Day
  • Fire

• I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Road

• Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Business
  • Man
  • Support

• I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Just

• I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Me
  • Reminds
  • Workaholic

• In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Purpose
  • Marine
  • Marine Corps

• I'm proud I'm English and I'm passionate about my country.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Country
  • Proud
  • English

• When we look at government in Washington or what's happening on Wall Street, we see so much centralization. But really, our goals should be to eliminate and overcome these central institutions. And in recent years we have gained powerful new tools to do this, and most significant among those is the block chain, which is the software behind Bitcoin.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Powerful
  • Wall
  • Goals

• Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Men
  • Star
  • Tough

• I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • London

• When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • You
  • Strategy
  • Investment

• When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Love
  • Artist
  • Australia

• As for modern Journalism, its not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Business
  • Modern
  • Journalism

• No education is ever wasted and everything you learn is helpful in acting.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Education

• 'A Reply to Professor Haldane' (1946), published posthumously in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1966)

  

  C. S. Lewis

• It is important to call on God to intervene in our life, especially when we reach the point where we ourselves have become helpless.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Life
  • God
  • Important

• If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change coming. What happened to America? We lost our roots.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • America
  • House
  • Lost

• We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Life
  • Children
  • Small

• People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People

• There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Won
  • Pathetic

• The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Temptation
  • Satan

• Nothing really changes: the individual's ability to project his message or throw his weight around remains minuscule.

  

  David Shields