David Shields Quotes
When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moines Register. He was a good sports writer. I became real interested in the contrast between Lute Olson, who was the coach of Iowa at the time, and Ron Maly.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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I started out doing musicals.
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Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
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I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.
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The Bible is filled with intriguing stories about complex and flawed human beings who ponder immense moral questions and engage in colossal clashes with evil.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.
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When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moines Register. He was a good sports writer. I became real interested in the contrast between Lute Olson, who was the coach of Iowa at the time, and Ron Maly.
