David Shields Quotes

In the case of the Web, each of us has slightly more access to a mass audience - a few more people slide through the door - but Facebook is finally a crude, personal multimedia conglomerate machine, personal nation-state machine, reality-show machine. New gadgets alter social patterns, new media eclipse old ones, but the pyramid never goes away.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 22, 1956

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When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

Jim Carrey

PeopleMePerformanceStartThink

Argentina and Burma. I have been to most of the countries in the world, but not those two. I want to shoot doves in Argentina. Burma, of course, because no one has really been there.

Jeremy Clarkson

WorldWantTwoShootArgentinaBeen

My dad's about character and bipartisanship and something greater than yourself and believing in this country and believing in the fact that we as Americans can still come together, and that's something I grew up in and feeds me every day.

Meghan McCain

CharacterDayTogetherYourselfMe

When pop culture can influence things in any way, when a song becomes something bigger than just a song, that's the greatest thing to me.

Max Martin

CultureMeInfluenceSongWay

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Robert Orben

ProblemAskAlwaysUnitedBeenAny

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.

Stanley Kubrick

GoodGreatControlThinkFeelYou

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

Robin Tunney

YouActingTwoPitchingThings

Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man.

Robert Wagner

ManSincereHonestStraightforward

I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner. If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner.

Masayoshi Son

IntelligenceBelievePartnerWill

Everybody just has to be held accountable for their own actions.

Jason Mitchell

OwnAccountableJustActionsHeld

My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.

Dennis C. Blair

GoodExperienceIntelligenceHouse

The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.

Davy Jones

RacingGoNeverMafiaGoingGo Away

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