David Quotes

Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be

Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is served in ample portions.

Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.

Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.

Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.

I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment.

I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.

I am a missionary, heart and soul.

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

Hitler is a prodigious genius.

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.

A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.

I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.

The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It's a creativity that creates everything that is a thing - it's mighty powerful creativity.

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything.

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.

Achievement is its own reward

When you sleep, you don't control your dream. I like to dive into a dream world that I've made, a world I chose and that I have complete control over.

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school’s curriculum.

We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.

The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light.

As a teenager, I was really trying to have fun 24 hours a day. I didn't start thinking until I was 20 or 21. I was doing regular goof-ball stuff.

I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don't care what else happens.

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.

Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

I know club music has to be infectious and it's got to make you move.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is.

I've seen so many cases where lives have been transformed for the good and heard so many stories about this. The technique of Transcendental Meditation really works for the human being.

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.

I just love musicians. They're not all super-happy all the time, but when they're playing they're happy, and it's such a beautiful thing.

My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.

Sometimes film kills the room to dream.

Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.

It's the rule of the two F's: I've got to be a fan and I've got to be a friend. We only work with people we have a cool personal relationship with.

The noble path does win but only if you are prepared to make the investment over a long period of time.

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.