Mark Davis Quotes

Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.

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• There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Difficult

• A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Music
  • Art
  • Poetry

• Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Economy

• 'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • City
  • Thought
  • Marble

• Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Best
  • Many
  • Venture

• People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they're totally different - you can't necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you're live in a theater. You don't have the tools yet. It's a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Day

• On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Know
  • Security
  • Front

• I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Politician
  • Asset

• In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Fun
  • Perfect
  • Challenge

• The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Sweet
  • Alien

• When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.

  

  Beck
  • First
  • Generation
  • Kid

• I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • World
  • Think
  • Look

• Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Business
  • Science
  • Politics

• For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Enjoy
  • Story
  • Part

• There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Play

• We love our fans and are very connected with our fans.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Fans
  • Very
  • Connected

• Over a hundred million Americans reject the findings of the Warren Commission, whose report at least ninety-nine out of a hundred have never read.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Never
  • Over
  • Million

• Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Proud
  • Something
  • Honour

• There are moths outside, ready to die for a light they crave but which is denied to them, shielded from them [...] Sometimes, in the midst of all I have been given, I watch the moths in us all. Everybody has a light which they think they cannot live without.

  

  Alma Alexander
  • Live
  • Light
  • Moths

• Bill Clinton has called for expanded wiretaps for the FBI.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • FBI
  • Bill Clinton
  • Wiretaps

• At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Home
  • Attitude

• I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it's really slim pickin's out there. There's a little dribble of a moral tacked on, but the story is not about that.

  

  Melissa Mathison
  • Being
  • Materialistic
  • Portrayed

• Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.

  

  Mark Davis
  • Being
  • Defense
  • Either