Danny DeVito Quotes

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

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• When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Stop
  • Singing
  • Voice

• The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Military
  • Discipline

• There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • America
  • Discussion

• Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • People
  • Live
  • Reality

• Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Be Yourself

• Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Up
  • Eyes

• When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Time
  • She
  • Remember

• Within the U.S., you could have argued that most people who watch 'Mad Men' would watch 'House of Cards.' But the viewing is much more on par with the large-scale mainstream things like 'The Walking Dead.' It was much younger than we thought.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • People
  • Men
  • House

• It would be nice to not have to prove myself and for people to know that I'm good and can play a role. Whatever role that is that lets people know that I can play the next role is what I want to do.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • People
  • Good
  • Nice

• When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Friends
  • American
  • College

• Financial risk is always associated with drug discovery. But the benefit that a blockbuster drug can bring to the business can be phenomenal if you can take that risk.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Business
  • Risk
  • Financial

• To survive as a species on this planet, we're going to have to see ourselves as Earthlings.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • See
  • Planet
  • Survive

• Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt like an alien. I felt like an outcast. I felt like, 'What is going to happen to me?'

  

  R. Kelly
  • Kids
  • Alien
  • Felt

• I would not be surprised if there were another cause of AIDS and even that HIV is not involved.

  

  Walter Gilbert

• Unmoved though Witlings sneer and Rivals rail, Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. He scorns the meek address, the suppliant strain. With merit needless, and without it vain. In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust: Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Trust

• I wouldn't be doing this interview if I didn't like you.

  

  Harrison Ford

• The professor must be an obscurantist or he is nothing; he has a special and unmatchable talent for dullness, his central aim is not to expose the truth clearly, but to exhibit his profundity, his esotericity - in brief to stagger sophomores and other professors.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Truth

• If the assembled company rags you for a failing, you can usually play up to it for comic effect: it's the failing they don't mention that you have to watch out for.

  

  Clive James
  • Up

• All clients think that they are architects.

  

  Annabelle Selldorf

• Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.

  

  David Bailey
  • Interesting
  • Picture
  • Photography

• In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the church, in the closet, in the home, on sacred days and on secular days.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Men
  • Home

• There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

  

  Danny DeVito