David Shields Quotes
The real impulse of most books is to tell a story to keep the reader lashed to the page. I don't get why that's a proper use of an adult's time.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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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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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.
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On Halloween, because we don't celebrate it, my dad would drive me somewhere, anywhere different. Like Little Italy in New York to walk around and teach me all about the food and culture.
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Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.
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I gave you my life, you gave me my life. Like a gush of wind in my hair. Why do we forget what's been said And play the game of life with our hearts?
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The real impulse of most books is to tell a story to keep the reader lashed to the page. I don't get why that's a proper use of an adult's time.
