David Shields Quotes

I'm really drawn toward work that is trying to capture what it's like to think now and to live now.

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• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Conscience
  • Active
  • Worse

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • Pay
  • University

• At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Me
  • Creativity

• I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Clothing

• My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Wish
  • Myself

• Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Reality
  • Opinion
  • Touch

• A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Ideas
  • Sound
  • Differences

• I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Real

• Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Stories

• For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Wonder
  • Shoe

• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Work
  • May
  • Society

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Wish
  • Always
  • Three

• I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Up
  • Time
  • Positive

• I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Voice
  • Internet
  • Microphone

• I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Think
  • Opportunities
  • Actress

• When I was a kid I did marshal arts, and then I did all-star crazy competitive cheer and dance, and then I swam so I was very muscular. You know, healthy, but not quite as thin as I am.

  

  Ashley Greene
  • Crazy
  • Star
  • Dance

• I love yoga, but the namaste thing only takes you so far.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Yoga

• Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

  

  Joe Clark
  • Life
  • Respect

• It's a very complex network of genes making products which go into the nucleus and turn on other genes. And, in fact, you find a continuing network of processes going on in a very complex way by which genes are subject to these continual adjustments, as you might say - the computer programmer deciding which genes ultimately will work.

  

  John Gurdon
  • Work

• I'm really drawn toward work that is trying to capture what it's like to think now and to live now.

  

  David Shields
  • Work
  • Live
  • Trying