David Shields Quotes

I like some of Annie Proulx, some of those very brief stories of hers. And I love J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. I like Geoff Dyer. I also liked W. G. Sebald, especially his book 'The Emigrants'.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'

Jo Brand

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Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo.

Michael Gerber

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Your first job, as an owner and an entrepreneur, has to be to understand how the business is going to actually work.

Michael Gerber

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I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogged down so much with all of that, with domestic stories and relationships and a woman dealing with the loss of her husband.

Miguel Syjuco

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Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

Michelle Yeoh

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If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.

Michael Specter

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I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.

Lisa Randall

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It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do.

Judd Nelson

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Showbiz works well when you give the audience what they want.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day - you can't prejudge technologies now because they have effects you may not have intended.

Douglas Coupland

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I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.

Sunidhi Chauhan

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I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

Peter Shaffer

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