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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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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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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I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
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As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.
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Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.
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No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.
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Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.
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There's probably about 150 charters in the world. We're the biggest international club there is.
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I like art with a visible string to the world.
