David Shapiro
David Shapiro
writing love-is lawyer
I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.
business buy capital fixed growth less listed might nowhere passes people property receives stocks
Listed property receives rental income. It passes on nowhere the kind of growth a business might have. Listed property delivers more or less a fixed return. People buy these stocks for yields, but they do make capital growth over time.
fund hit low managers money prepared profits promoting ready savings seem
I'm big on saving, but big institutions are not promoting savings. If one of the big money managers launched a savings fund with very low barriers, they'd have to be prepared to take a hit on profits and they don't seem ready to do that.
felt left
I felt like I was the only one in the world left on dial-up.
broader chance child great happened kids people pictures putting seen trucks
Putting pictures of kids on trucks is a great idea. The broader the reach, the more people who actually see this picture, the better the chance that someone will know that child, have seen that child or know what happened to that child.
felt governing
I just felt like they weren't governing like they should.
believe naked sitting
I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive.
rights people enemy
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.
lawyer
I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.
book numbers people
I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.
blind-spots people world
Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.
couple memories thinking
We all have a family and I think we all have a perception of our family that we like to keep and we all have our positive memories in a certain way. Then when life catches up to them, when you see a different perspective of them, or when you are a couple degrees over, you can see things differently and it shakes you to the foundation.
silence trying remember
There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.
believe thinking cinema
I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema verité. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it.