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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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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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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Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'
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The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.
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I don't want to just be another actor in L.A. looking for a job.
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Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery.
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The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don't need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to gather and think deep thoughts together.
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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.
