David Quotes

If you're passing the buck, don't ask for change.

Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years.

The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.

There's no way out of here.

You don't want to believe everything you hear.

Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

I think I'm still trying to be experimental on everything I ever do, but it's not as obviously way-out and experimental as what we were.

If you are in a band or in any situation with other people there are obviously brilliant aspects to it, but there are also things that you start finding yourself tied to.

To be honest, I don't listen to groups, really. Hardly ever. I know I'm in one, but I don't like them very much.

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment.

I don't, consciously anyways, sort of listen to things with the idea of getting something from them that I can use.

For me, gradually over the years, you refined your tastes in the way you do things and it becomes maybe less experimental.

It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.

I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make. I wake up every day with a new interest and a desire for an education.

I really strongly feel that when you approach a drama, you have to approach it with energy, honesty, sincerity, and absolute commitment, or don't do it.

Sometimes in the studio movies I've been working in, you'll put a joke in a movie because the crowd loves it - not because I love it.

I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this is spring. After a period of shriveling, out come the leaves.

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.

There's part of me that is a strict materialist.

Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

The mind may find unique ways to express what it conceives of reality, but reality remains unchanged by the mind's efforts.

Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.

QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

I believe love opens people up.

When I think about my children and how different their futures might be as a result of climate change, it makes me determined to do something about it.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I dont really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, Blimey, look at that.

Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.

The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income.

I look good, but I probably have the insides of Elvis.

Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes.'

Once you let go of your morals, everything becomes funny

If you look after yourself, keep yourself healthy and have good sparring, there shouldn't be any issues regarding ring rust.

It's going to be fun watching this robot start malfunctioning.

I'm not a big fan of being a victim. I don't like getting beaten up.

It's important to continue to change and evolve in the way that the comics change and evolve.

All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

To turn a human being into a part-canine or lupine creature takes a good deal of artistry and money.

If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?

People thought I was dead. But I wasn't. I was just directing "The A-Team."

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people are ready to make them, we'll do that.

We tell the stories that we want to tell.

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

Physics is much too hard for physicists.

My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers; if they don't they're weeds.

Faces are the most interesting things we see