David Shields Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I get homesick.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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They hate whom they fear.
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I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of their lords and masters.
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I don't think 'Freak Dance' is a parody; it's more reference than anything. People don't think of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' as a 'Frankenstein' parody. It's kind of like that.
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Came out my mama's pussy, I'm on welfare. Twenty-six years old, still on welfare.
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I have to remind myself that it may never be this good again.
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There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.
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I like art with a visible string to the world.
