David Shields Quotes
Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself. He is my worst self realized.

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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
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I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
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Live albums are very important for Rush, and they became sort of a closing chapter for us.
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But you can't kill a demon because they're evil spirits, like a ghost.
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It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.
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Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.
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Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself. He is my worst self realized.