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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I agree with you that should work together in a bipartisan fashion, and I believe this work product is a result of a hard-fought compromise.
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The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently strong executive power, can protect us.
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I'd always be loaning my sister money, knowing full well I wasn't going to get it back. But she had the kids, and that paid me back.
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Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?
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When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.
