David Shields Quotes

It's hard not to read the success of someone like Hilary Mantel as the product of a world that is too nervous, too crazy, and perhaps too interesting for some people.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances, you probably would want to. In other instances, you'd probably say that the political element is important because it should, in a perfect world, match what the stakeholders need or want, or what the public is after.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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I'm very keen that we have this debate about the good parts of inequality and the bad parts of inequality. It's not a one-sided thing.

Angus Deaton

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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

Stendhal

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The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambara

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Teams are a collective expression.

Ronaldo

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When I ask people to give, I can't be on television if they don't; I can't help people, if I don't - I mean, it takes money.

Joyce Meyer

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I like to take all my feelings and thoughts and put them down in different ways on paper.

Judith Viorst

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We were able to flood the zone immediately.

Jonathan Klein

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I'm really not that weird. I'm a combination of a lot of different things. Maybe it's just easier to make me look weird than another model who is specifically Caucasian.

Devon Aoki

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In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

Alija Izetbegovic

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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

William R. Alger

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There is no re-inventing the wheel.

Sean Penn

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