Dave Attell Quotes

I have no grand scheme.

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• I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Way
  • Part

• Change is no threat to culture.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Threat

• I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Believe
  • Choices
  • Chance

• I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

  

  Adam Grant
  • School
  • College
  • Doing

• If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Been
  • Line

• The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Live
  • American
  • Think

• In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Power
  • True

• Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Makeup
  • Skin
  • Too Much

• I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Book
  • Questions

• We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Hope
  • Moments
  • Rebirth

• Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Different
  • Purpose
  • Often

• I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

  

  Beck
  • Winning
  • Expectations

• I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Think
  • Amazing

• I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Done
  • Job
  • Think

• While 'Outlander' is a brilliant period show, Claire represents so many qualities of a 10th century modern-day woman: someone who is forging her own path, fighting for what she believes, and doing so with integrity.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • She
  • Fighting
  • Woman

• The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • Find
  • First

• The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Writing

• Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz

• The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Fear
  • Difference
  • Willingness

• Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times... It goes to pretty dark places.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Pretty
  • Dark
  • Drama

• Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is like someone sitting on a mountain top: it is cold there, it is hard, and nothing will grow. But if the person puts himself in a lower position, then that person is like a fertile field.

  

  B. Alan Wallace
  • Cold
  • Mountain

• Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • World
  • Science
  • Reflect

• I have no grand scheme.

  

  Dave Attell