David Shields Quotes

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

David Shields

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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.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • You
  • Know
  • Interview

• The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Me
  • Confidence
  • Given

• 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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Proud
  • End
  • Seeing

• I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • World
  • Best
  • Talent

• It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • True
  • Best
  • Succeed

• Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Time
  • Blood
  • Battle

• Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.

  

  Adam Grant
  • History
  • Moments
  • Emotional

• The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Movement
  • Presentation

• 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.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • God
  • Society

• You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Live
  • You
  • Moment

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable

• 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.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Chess

• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • Children
  • Future

• 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.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Long
  • Play

• I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Business
  • Rules
  • Fair

• 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?'

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Soul
  • Eyes
  • Hand

• The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

  

  Bill Mauldin
  • Great
  • God
  • Children

• I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes it's funny.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • Funny
  • Elephant

• The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the highest water quality in Connecticut.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Water
  • Quality
  • River

• Our economy has become completely different, on the whole. The size has changed. The economy has almost doubled in size. And the quality is changing, not as fast as we would like it to, but the structure is changing. Our Armed Forces are completely different today from what they were, say 15 years ago or so. All of this, including our great history, great culture, all of this, not just what we see today, is what makes the vast majority of Russia's citizens feel proud for their country.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Different
  • Country
  • Culture

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

  

  David Shields
  • Quality