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Mark Shields Quotes

Let's not pretend that all of a sudden, this is some new system.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 25, 1937

Topics

New Pretend System Some Sudden

Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.

Men Ideas Reality Better Reason

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

Money New York City World Financial

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a costume drama out of it. There's no place for it to go except trapped inside its little book.

Life Poetry Book You Place Drama

I didn't give myself enough love, so I was searching for it in other places, and it was a never ending struggle.

Love Myself Struggle Ending Enough

I don't particularly care what people think of me as long as I know what I'm doing is right.

People Me Think Care Doing Long

But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.

Good Home Connection Pretty Computer

Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.

Jonathan Evison

Work People Theme Themselves Maybe

I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.

Think Body Way Mean Human Things

We've gone through rounds of tax cutting and rounds of tax increases in modern U.S. history. We haven't really had a big igniting of a trade war belligerence since the Depression era, and that's not an era that we want to repeat.

Austan Goolsbee

History Depression War Tax Want Big

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Life Girl Age Me She Give Me

'V' had just been cancelled; I was looking for a job, and the 'Homeland' script came across my desk. I loved it immediately, although I thought it would end up being discovered gradually - a slow-burner, like 'The Wire.'

Morena Baccarin

Job Looking Thought End Loved Desk

People want to connect over shared passions and interests. They're seeking inspiration. We see this over and over - in communities of people who are grappling with body issues, in the LGBT community.

Community People Body Want Over See

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