David Shields Quotes

In a way, it's taken me 25 years to acknowledge that I am from the West Coast. I was always sort of pretending I was bicoastal or that I really belonged on the East Coast.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

I AmMeWayAlwaysYearsPretending

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.

Jim Morrison

DoorsUnknownThingsBetweenKnown

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

John Buchan

LeadershipGreatnessHumanityTask

What artists are doing, and what people who are receiving the arts are doing, is entering into this agreement to occupy a parallel world. The parallel world is ever-expanding. We used to think that it existed only for people who were wealthy, well-born, or educated. It isn't like that.

Melvyn Bragg

PeopleWorldThinkDoingEducated

I've learned a lot about getting film sensibilities on digital.

John Hillcoat

DigitalFilmLearnedAboutGetting

I own guns because it's my right, it's my Second Amendment right, and no one in Washington gave me that right; it's a natural right confirmed by the very people that founded this nation.

Jeanine Pirro

PeopleMeWashingtonRightAmendment

The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international relations have also been missed, perhaps even lost - here, however, primarily because of the United States.

Stephen Cohen

OpportunitiesLostMissedHereBeen

We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future.

Ron Kind

WomenFutureMenPeopleProudMore

I think having musical training as a child was really, really important. I studied piano as a child. Piano is a great instrument to understand musical theory on. I think I have that in my brain somewhere.

Corin Tucker

GreatTrainingChildBrainThink

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

Brian Greene

ScienceAdventureUnderstandYears

You have got Team Sky leading the way on a professional front. They are quite open and have done everything possible on an anti-doping level.

Bradley Wiggins

SkyTeamYouProfessionalPossible

Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by four, with even larger multiples for secondary and university education.

Arthur Lewis

EducationGrowthChildrenGreatWar

Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.

Pepa

MusicSongYouOutWholeJust

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