David Shields Quotes

Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.

David Shields

• Team
• City
• Passion
• Sports

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Control

• I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Me
  • Always
  • Acting

• Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Depression

• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Know

• When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Know
  • Acting
  • Kid

• The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Great
  • Power
  • Supreme Court

• Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theatre

• 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.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Real
  • Job
  • Society

• Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• I know what poverty is.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Poverty

• Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Bible
  • Constitution

• If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • People
  • Live
  • Government

• Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • World
  • Home
  • War

• A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • America
  • Talking
  • Internal

• Coffee and chocolate-the inventor of mocha should be sainted.

  

  Cherise Sinclair
  • Should
  • Coffee
  • Chocolate

• I'm very selective about what I write about, and whom I write about, and how much I write about somebody.

  

  Cathy Horyn
  • Writing

• The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.

  

  Paula Abdul
  • Good

• Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.

  

  David Shields
  • Team
  • City
  • Passion