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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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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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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Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
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The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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We want to have the place jumping, ... Traditional British people have to start re-examining themselves and their culture in terms of addressing the new age.
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Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice.... Sampladelia is the sound made by those early-twentieth-century discoveries in particle physics and relativiity theory, the projection of the minds of Einstein, Heisenbery, and Bohr, their fateful explorations of liquid time, curving space, uncertainty fields and relativity theorems, into densely configured and fully ambivalent android music tracks.
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When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.
