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

• All of a sudden, life became too much to bear. Just like that, for no particular reason. Because there was a child’s corpse in the fridge on rue Parthenais. Because I had to start all over again from scratch, one more time. Because I had rolled my rock to the top of the hill and now it was rolling back down again. The times before, I’d always managed to put on a brave face. But there comes a time when you just don’t feel strong enough to look for another place to live and go shopping again for clothes and dishes and cutlery and scouring pads and toilet paper. This was one of those times. When I got back to the hotel, I asked the Barbie at reception for the key to the minibar. It burned in the palm of my hand. I slapped it back down on the counter and ran out. I had to find a meeting.

  

  Bernard Emond
  • Hand
  • Reason
  • Meeting

• Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Strong
  • Faith

• A friend of everyone is a friend of no one.

  

  Aristotle
  • Friend
  • Everyone
  • No One

• I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people need those songs too, but I don't really write lyrics like that.

  

  William Beckett
  • People
  • Writing
  • Dance

• In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Love
  • Way
  • Creation

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

  

  David Shapiro
  • Sitting
  • Productive
  • Negotiations