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

• My kids only come around once in my lifetime, and they (hopefully) won't be with me forever. I chose to have them, and I choose, freely, to make them and my family a priority in my life. This stage of life won't last forever. While it does, I've climbed on for the ride.

  

  David Albert
  • Family
  • Forever
  • Stage

• I believe very strongly in paid sick leave.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Sick
  • Paid

• Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Fear
  • Hearts
  • Jealous

• Well, I'm English, so it's intimidating to step anywhere. I used to be painfully shy. I wouldn't say that I'm painfully shy anymore. But if I have the option of sitting on the edge of a circle, I will.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Wells
  • Used
  • Steps

• You try to go within reason, ... and to make sure you're doing smart things. And you take a long, hard look at a game like this and say, 'Okay, what can we do to improve ourselves?' But I think we need to stay aggressive, and I think we all want to be aggressive.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Long
  • Game
  • Reason

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

  

  David Shapiro
  • Sitting
  • Productive
  • Negotiations