David Quotes

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

The arts don't exist in isolation.

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.

I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary

I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

A bike is the world's most used form of transportation

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

An injury to one is an injury to all.

Mary Kay knew that when you put people first and then surround them with processes and disciplines that recognize their efforts, performance will soar.

Look at me and think of Schwarzenegger.

Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.

In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.

If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

Give me a part in a film, and I'll show you I'm not just a heartthrob.

I'm frightened of nothing anymore," answered Fell simply, "except lies. For they're the real killers.

I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.

And the line up for the final of the women's 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman

I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.

I have a future and I have a mind and I have things to look forward to,' but to me it's just about..I love to pitch so much.

I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.

You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.

It's really hard to think of one kind of magic as a favorite. I've been really fortunate in that I've been able to perform such a diverse range of things.

I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

Let sleeping dogs lie — who wants to rouse 'em?

I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

Until you accept total responsibility - no matter what - you won't be able to put plans in place to accomplish your goals.

So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.

When did I decide to go into business? Well, it wasn't a business, when I decided. It was simply a need to sing.

We get to see it! January 1st, 2000! We get to see... all those fundamentalist preachers having to do their backpedaling when the Armageddon doesn't occur.

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

I have always tried to use humor to "help ever" and "hurt never," for I find that to laugh is like swallowing a secret that Santa Claus farted.

What happened to our friendship? I really think it's our obligation as friends to be brutally honest and be frank with them and say, 'Look, I'm sorry, but your baby is fking boring.'