Al Davis Quotes

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.

They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.

First you imitate, then you innovate.

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

Always listen for what you can leave out.

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

To keep creating you have to be about change.

I may not be perfect, but I'm trying.

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.

Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

All we ask is to be let alone.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.

I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.

Once a Raider, always a Raider.

Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.

You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."

They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.

It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or ‘patterns of culture’ without taking geography into account.

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'

I never met a lasagna I didn't like

I'll play it first and figure out what it's called later.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.