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

• I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

  

  Steve Burton
  • Fun
  • Comedy
  • Shows

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Friend
  • Everyone
  • No One

• You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Job
  • Mistakes
  • Soviet Union

• They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. "Carry this with you on your journey," he said softly, "for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star — and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Important
  • Car
  • Eye

• 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

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

  

  David Shapiro
  • Sitting
  • Productive
  • Negotiations