David Shapiro Quotes

I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive.

David Shapiro

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• I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

  

  Mae West
  • Believe
  • Fortune
  • Censorship

• One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Attention

• It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Life
  • Free
  • Taken

• Republicans can't run their normal playbook on me that they try to run on Democratic candidates. They can't say I flip-flop because I don't. They can't say I'm weak on defense because I'm not. They can't say I'm weak on values because I'm not. They can't say I'm a big taxer and a big spender.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Values
  • Democratic
  • Republicans

• I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Point
  • Core
  • Fragile

• Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Bigs
  • Vacation

• He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Happy
  • Rich

• To be a good director, you have to have good life experience. I'm getting there.

  

  Thomas Brodie-Sangster
  • Life
  • Good
  • Experience

• By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Believe
  • Heaven
  • Repeated

• Sometimes @BrookeShields rolls into your party dressed as a Christmas tree, carrying a bucket of KFC. pic.twitter.com/DTtZkZY4cB

  

  Willie Geist
  • Party
  • Sometimes
  • Tree

• Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Running
  • Imagination

• I had never really written songs for anyone before. With [Broken] Social Scene, you're writing songs for others and your passing them around and exchanging things, but for a man who has the history that Andy Kim had, and has lived the life that he's had, you see such a youthful aspect of how he just wanted to create something again.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Song

• When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mom
  • Go
  • Grapes

• Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban wilderness and into the souls of our forgotten brothers. But Wrath James White hasn't forgotten about them--and after reading this book, neither will you.

  

  Brandon Massey
  • Book
  • Journey
  • Souls

• I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • World
  • Computer
  • Four

• Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.

  

  Norm Coleman
  • Security
  • Changed
  • Social

• I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive.

  

  David Shapiro
  • Sitting
  • Productive
  • Negotiations