David Shields Quotes

It's true of so many fiction writers that I much prefer the essayistic work they did, whether it's David Foster Wallace's, or John Cheever's, or Nathaniel Hawthorne's.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I was an Army intelligence agent and a veteran during the Cold War, assigned to West Germany. I was the chairman of the National Commission on Homeland Security and Terrorism for the United States for five years. I was a person who has dealt extensively with these homeland security issues. I was a governor during the 9/11 attack.

Jim Gilmore

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I'd like to read all of Proust.

Ann Patchett

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I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

Jean Giraudoux

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I cook naked, and I walk around naked. I'm very comfortable with my body.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.

Ruth Ann Minner

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A Democrat who had been JFK's Secretary of the Navy, Connally believed that as many as 20 million Democrats would cross over to vote for Nixon because George McGovern wasn't qualified to lead the nation, particularly because of his proposals for military cutbacks.

Mike Gallagher

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It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

Judith Krantz

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A lot of states that pass voter ID laws have little to no evidence of in-person voter impersonation fraud, which is the only kind of fraud that voter ID laws could guard against.

Jason Kander

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Once you touch that grass, you know in your head only one team is going to walk out of there with a win.

Jason Pierre-Paul

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We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.

Joseph Pulitzer

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There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason why we love them so much, in fact. They are neither "good" nor "bad." They don't hold grudges, act in petty ways, or seek revenge. They read our moods, but not our minds.

Jon Katz

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I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.

Diana Ross

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