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

• 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

• We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Death
  • Enemies
  • Celebrate

• If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Thinking
  • Confused

• I have high blood sugars, and Type 2 diabetes is not going to kill me. But I just have to eat right, and exercise, and lose weight, and watch what I eat, and I will be fine for the rest of my life.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Kill
  • Diabetes

• Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear, and powerful in the midst of emotional 'storms'.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Great
  • Powerful
  • Person

• Frankly, I'm not religious, but I believe in the cause of humanity - doing good work.

  

  Sukhwinder Singh
  • Believe
  • Humanity
  • Good Work

• You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Find
  • Meaning
  • Rhyme

• Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.

  

  Dante Hall