David Shields Quotes
When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.
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I know what poverty is.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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In my stand-up, I generally improvise from an outline.
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Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
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You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.
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White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.
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When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.
