David Quotes

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

I don't like begging money from producers.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

It was my notion that teaching had to be thorough, it had to be well done, and it had to connect to something beyond the classroom; life.

It [European Union] has kept the peace in Europe. Countries used to fight and now they talk. We should be attached to that.

More of the same will just produce more of the same - less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs.

I want the European Union to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it.

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

Normally when people say they haven't decided, they're being polite but they're definitely not voting for you. I think it's different this time. People are thinking hard about the issues.

My question right now would be to Colonel Gaddafi, which is: 'What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop it.'

We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.

I am just not a great fan of the Piers Morgan format. I would rather do something a bit more substantial.

I've always said, not giving too much away, I'm a believer in having all your stars on the pitch.

Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.

Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.

Today the main, over-riding purpose of the European Union is different: not to win peace, but to secure prosperity.

At the core of the European Union must be, as it is now, the single market. Britain is at the heart of that Single Market, and must remain so.

Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.

Because I'm a democrat! The will of the people is sovereign.

It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

Bryan Habana likes to talk himself up before games and then nothing happens.

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

He was, albeit only briefly, the hero of the world's hopes.

There are no good guys in a Quentin Tarantino movie. They're all bad guys. And you like us. That's Quentin's big talent.

I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.

The success of the '86 movie with Brandon Lee demanded some kind of continuation. Plus, I had always contemplated a modern version.

I was involved in a web cartoon of Kung Fu with WB a few years back.

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.

My interests started about in science and in mathematics, I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

I tend to look at potential investments from the standpoint of whether it is a valuable contribution to society.

Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the architect isn’t trusted.

People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.

He's 31 this year: last year he was 30.

Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter.

I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.

We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

It's amazing what a haircut and forgetting to shave will do.

I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause