David K. Shipler Quotes

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

David K. Shipler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 3, 1942

Topics

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I was attached to 'Sharp Objects' before 'Big Little Lies,' actually.

Jean-Marc Vallee

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I got sick of being famous. It is not a desirable 'job.'

Amanda de Cadenet

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Almost nobody gets rich or erudite overnight.

Tucker Carlson

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I'm super nice - I just get excited!

Travis Scott

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Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.'

Tom Paulin

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I think humans have always wrestled with the Divine Idea - an idea that unites and separates, creates and destroys, consoles and terrifies. Throughout human history, it is an idea that seems sometimes to have caused whole populations to rise up and slaughter one another.

Robert Winston

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I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

Jonny Greenwood

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A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

David Whyte

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I signed a contract to fight at UFC 187, so I'm going to fight at UFC 187, whoever it is against. It's the same thing.

Donald Cerrone

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Do not forget from whence you've come.

Cory Booker

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I have friends who read my books in Greek.

Brian Lumley

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My kids are my biggest motivation.

Bobby Lashley

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