David Shields Quotes

I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.

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• I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'

  

  Ian Holm
  • Business
  • Sometimes
  • Manager

• People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Idea
  • Boxing
  • Ring

• A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Me
  • Superman

• I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Know
  • Red
  • Stress

• Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Me
  • Say
  • Genes

• They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.

  

  Ma Rainey
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Better

• Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Violence

• I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Energy
  • Yoga
  • Meditation

• I look back on the last 10 years and I have to say I'm proud of what I have accomplished, because I've been able to raise two beautiful children.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Proud

• My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Father
  • Passion
  • Doing

• I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Life
  • Day
  • Training

• The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Life
  • Live
  • Die

• Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • God

• 'Eh bien, Mademoiselle, all through my life I have observed one thing - 'All one wants one gets!' Who knows?' His face screwed itself up comically. 'You may get more than you bargain for.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Life
  • Up
  • May

• …the prisoner’s dreams is the guard’s spirituality

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • World
  • Bad
  • Game

• The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Personality

• We all have different things that make us strong and weak, but if we communicate and we really open ourselves and open our hearts, you're going to be amazed by the things that you can learn.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Strong
  • You

• I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Death
  • Strong
  • Bee

• And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

  

  Duane G. Carey
  • People
  • Learning
  • Selfish

• What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Wife
  • Kid
  • Birds

• I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.

  

  David Shields
  • Selfish
  • Bee