Dante Hall Quotes

Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.

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• I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Thought
  • Diet

• Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • World
  • Health
  • Organization

• I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Kids
  • Water
  • Walking

• I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • High
  • Dance
  • Training

• I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!

  

  Jackie Collins
  • City
  • Try
  • Australia

• I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Happy
  • Football
  • Tennis

• Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Years
  • Youth
  • United Nations

• Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Animal
  • Chaos
  • WIld

• I am a contrarian.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Contrarian

• I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Star

• In some causes silence is dangerous.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Silence
  • Dangerous
  • Some

• You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Remember
  • Success
  • Yourself

• When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Trying
  • School
  • Together

• I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • Think
  • Play

• In papergaming, players can look at a character sheet of their own creation and see all of their skills, right there, in black and white.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Character
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• Seeing how easy it has been to use Twitter for good has exposed the double-edged sword of how easy it could be to co-opt.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Seeing

• Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Sympathy
  • Fruit

• My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Time
  • Love
  • Dad

• Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Played

• We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Imagine
  • Finally

• I wrote 'Ain't It Cool? Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out,' because in doing hundreds and hundreds of interviews over the past six and a half years, I was tired of the story being half told or a third told or erroneously told.

  

  Harry Knowles
  • Story
  • Interviews

• I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.

  

  David Weber
  • People
  • World
  • Done

• It’s not like me and Lesley are inconspicuous. Nightingale had winced, as he always does, at my incorrect use of the accusative pronoun but I think I’m beginning to wear him down.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Wear
  • Inconspicuus
  • Pronoun

• Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.

  

  Dante Hall