Al David Quotes

Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

MSNBC will never be as liberal as Fox is conservative.

I thought Obama was brilliant. He's so informed. He's circumspect. He's articulate. He's thoughtful. Well, I think in my lifetime, there's never been anything like it.

Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV doesn't do that.

Most of TV works this way: You try to get something up and running, and once you do, you just try to keep it going, because there's a lot of money involved.

I think what you've seen from Donald Trump is this whole election cycle, there's been a level of misogyny that has become certain and fixed.

You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.

We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the opportunity to experience nourishing relationships.

Healing is the process of reestablishing the integration between body, mind, and spirit, creating opportunities for the return of the memory of wholeness.

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.

When we spend time in silence, we can hear the voice of our soul whispering its sacred message and encouraging us to make choices that bring us more happiness, health, love, meaning, and peace.

You shoot another guy—well, okay, this is Baltimore. You shoot three guys, it’s time to admit you have a problem.

Eating a meal with full awareness can be a powerful, enlightening, and healing experience.

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

It is your birthright to live a life abundant in love. Make the commitment today to open your heart and let your love flow.

Meditation is like a bath for the mind; it clears and refreshes our windows of perception, allowing more light, love, and happiness to flow into lives.

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has

Health is a return to our memory of wholeness.

There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

What drugs haven't destroyed, the war against them has

All stress is ultimately related to loss or the fear of loss.

Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content.

Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing

Any music can be healing if it inspires, relaxes, encourages or creates enthusiasm for life in you.

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution.

We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that.

Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

In the wake of Katrina, what you're witnessing and what we are very careful to depict is a form of patriotism.

More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to television than to prose. That's equally sad, if not more so.

A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.

Most often the electorate votes for change.

Hillary Clinton did not represent, on a lot of policy matters, what the American public perceived to be as a change.

In America, we are living in a country where the deep economic problems have not been solved and arguably, in many cases, haven't been addressed.

At what point do [progressives] take off our partisan blinders and start wondering whether a very powerful faction of Democrats actually continues to SUPPORT President Bush and the War in Iraq?

However, white male privilege means white men are not collectively denigrated/targeted for those shootings - even though most come at the hands of white dudes.

I've always been very, very supportive of fan cultures. I'm a fan of all kinds of things.

With a DVD, you want something you can own, you can watch, you can come to grips with and you can explore. It's something larger than the film, when it's going out to a fan base.

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.

It's good to know where you've come from.

Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think that much about children; I'm not a child educator; I'm just a former child.

Humanization and coming to understand somebody as a human being is about as good a kind of forgiveness as you can get, I think.

We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace.

The main drawback, of course, was cost. Participating effectively in World Summit on the Information Society was very expensive for both developing countries and (especially) civil society.

Nobody wants to read about your life. Who cares?

If I try to cover too much ground, you start to get watered down and less interesting.