Al David Quotes

The capacity of computers is doubling every eight months. It's exponential development. I think it's a real threat, actually, that a computer one day will be more intelligent than us.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs.

My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

A relationship is work, and it changes. And you go with the changes. It's more good times than bad times, but it's not always good. You have to overcome those issues and move on.

You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear after that. Maybe I've lucked out because I came back and went to work.

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it.

When you're in a relationship with a very famous person, you have to make compromises.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies.

I adore children. If I weren't an actor, I would be a teacher or work with small children in some way. I feel happy in their company.

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

A mentor, a 'teacher, ' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.

There is no question in my mind that a 'Brexit' would deal a significant blow to the E.U.'s strength and resilience at exactly the moment when the West is under attack from multiple directions.

Exercising and eating properly will build your physical and mental strength to endure the stressful situation.

'One Yellow Daffodil' is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.

People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.

I am for 100% equality across the board for everybody, in all walks of life.

We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

It's terribly important that we extend the promise of equality that the Supreme Court and that the district court articulated in the DOMA case and in the Perry case to all Americans in all 50 states.

All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.

Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob, ' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present.

Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your spirit when you hear a great orchestra playing great music.

Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.

In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.

I drink coffee in the morning and a few cups throughout the day. Among coffee's health benefits are lower risk of Parkinson's, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and dementia.

The idea is to go to bed every night with fewer enemies than you had in the morning.

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.

The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn't do all that much collection of intelligence. It's not a very good spy agency, but it's good at running covert action.

Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.

Sometimes James Bond movies drive me crazy. They're fun to watch, but they don't have anything to do at all with what intelligence officers really do.

Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.

We have a complicated intelligence relationship with France. We have a complicated intelligence relationship with other - with other allies.

Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy.

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.

The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.

What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.'

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.

There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.