Dave Attell Quotes

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.

Dave Attell

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• Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • High
  • Death
  • Moral

• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fly

• The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Fun

• I was born and raised in a small village, and I didn't even think I was especially pretty.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Small

• My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Sports

• The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • God
  • Gift

• I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Different
  • Done
  • Enough

• I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Alone

• The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Abuse
  • Conscience
  • Physical

• I am a straightforward man.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Straightforward

• My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Time
  • Good
  • She

• It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Time
  • Education
  • Fire

• Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Sometimes
  • Cold
  • Across

• Montaigne the I-sayer. 'I' as space, not as position.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Space

• Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Important
  • Live
  • Science

• I don't put a girl in a box and clap my hands three times, and she's gone. I get in the box, and I vanish, and I reappear at the other side of the stage. That way, people don't think, 'That's a great illusion.' They think, 'Doug's a great magician.'

  

  Doug Henning
  • People
  • Great
  • She

• I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Romantic

• I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

  

  Billy Childish
  • Work
  • Art
  • Stop

• I'm here to play football.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Play
  • Football
  • Here

• I find talented, driven, boundlessly ambitious people and help them solve problems that will hopefully improve the lives of millions. Sometimes this means investing in startup founders. Other times, it involves helping organize and fundraise for charity or politics.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • People
  • Help
  • Charity

• Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Time

• We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Man
  • Passion
  • Darkness

• What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on air, let them. The sooner the present generation of women dies out, the better. We have idiots enough in the world now without such women propagating any more.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Wish
  • Generation
  • Idiots

• When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.

  

  Dave Attell