David Shields Quotes

I try to be as honest as I possibly can about the contradictions within my own heart and thereby get to something 'true' and revealing and important about contemporary American culture and human nature.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

NatureHeartCultureAmericanTrue

Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?

Andreas Katsulas

CharacterBetterYearYouPlayKnow

I belong to the political party that generally fits my philosophical beliefs, but I reserve the right to vote my conscience after careful deliberation. My voting record reflects this.

Jeff Fortenberry

VotingPoliticalPartyVoteRight

My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.

John Tyler

BestMeInfluenceTidePersonal

When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in because I was black and whatnot.

Sterling K. Brown

SchoolMeHigh SchoolBlackFriends

I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money.

Rob Thomas

MoneyFinancePeopleMaking Money

The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

GoodLieYouBodyKnowActor

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Michelangelo

YouDivineEvenDisdainMale

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

Mitt Romney

LifeEggUniteSomethingGoesSperm

Just be yourself, and enjoy the blessings that God's borne out on you.

Delilah

GodYourselfBe YourselfBlessings

I know the fans are very personable with my mom and things like that. They make little collages and pictures. They make edits of me and my mom together.

Christina Grimmie

TogetherMeMomPicturesKnowFans

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

Clayton M. Christensen

WorkTogetherPeopleManagementYou

To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.

Claude Vorilhon

LifeLiveSufferingUnhappyWish

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