David Shields Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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Every time you get something, give something away.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.
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If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Thnk of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words-not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! Is not that something of a miracle?
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Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.
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The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.
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It's called 'John Wick' - it's really about this guy's very simple journey. We just didn't want to clutter it. It's gratifying it in its own right, in its simplicity.
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I want the reader to join me on an intellectual and emotional journey into some major aspect of existence.
