David Shields Quotes

Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PassionSportsTeamBetterBeatOur

You can't be selfish in this game. You've got to know, at the end of the day, that it's all about winning. And when you win, everybody looks good.

Jimmy Butler

GoodDayWinWinningGameSelfish

When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.

Jim Cramer

WorkMoneyDayPeopleMindThought

I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America.

Robert Stone

DogWarSocietyThinkAmericaNow

The news media tends to act like the kids on a young soccer team. We all follow the ball as it moves from one side of the field to the next - like a kids' soccer game. And the kid who ends up scoring a goal was the one who's off to the corner by himself just waiting for the opportunity.

Steve Capus

OpportunityWaitingTeamGameMedia

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.

Roger Rosenblatt

GoodPassionGood And EvilEvilKind

There are some people who have stayed with us our whole career, which is pretty cool too.

Mike McCready

PeopleCoolCareerSome PeopleUs

I've never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic comedies because I want to wear beautiful dresses and have people think I'm pretty and that I get the guy.

Minnie Driver

BeautifulRomanticPeopleThinkWant

I hate the word 'partner' so much.

Jonathan Franzen

HatePartnerWordMuch

I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.

Dick York

TongueTeethEvidenceSideBiteSet

'Dark Side of the Moon' was one of my father's favorite records, which I obviously didn't understand when I was young. To be honest, I don't really have too many memories of hearing it, but I definitely have memories of the cover.

Apparat

FatherMemoriesMoonDarkYoung

There is no way to know for certain what accounts for North Korean decisionmaking, given how closed a country it is.

Richard N. Haass

CountryKnowWayKoreanNorthHow

I am privileged to count many Muslims among my friends - some are amongst my closest friends.

Nicola Sturgeon

I AmFriendsCountAmongstSomeAm

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