Danny DeVito Quotes

You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.

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• I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Dad

• Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Men
  • Value

• I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Fun
  • You

• Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

  

  J Mascis
  • Together
  • Guitar
  • Some

• I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Teacher
  • Yoga
  • Swim

• The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Work
  • Great
  • History

• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Try

• I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Thing

• I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Want
  • Kind
  • End

• Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Always

• You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Happy
  • Campers

• It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!

  

  Fat Joe
  • America
  • Help
  • Same

• For me, I've learned if I want a very stable, normal relationship, where I'll be like, 'Okay, this is nice, I know what's going to happen in a month,' it's probably better to date outside the industry. But you can't help who you fall for. It's our dating pool.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Help
  • Relationship
  • Nice

• I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Political
  • Past
  • Year

• It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Bad
  • Wisdom
  • Too Much

• I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

  

  Jeanne Moreau
  • Life
  • Why

• I had always heard it maintained by my father, and was myself convinced, that the object of education should be to form the strongest possible associations of the salutary class; associations of pleasure with all things beneficial to the great whole, and of pain with all things hurtful to it.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Great
  • Father
  • Education

• People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Failure

• I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • People

• You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.

  

  Danny DeVito
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