Dave Itzkoff Quotes

As an ardent supporter of the Nietzschean conception of the eternal recurrence, I firmly believe that one cannot validate the totality of a life unless one accepts and embraces all the experiences that comprise it. That said, I sometimes wish I'd gone to film school.

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• I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Reading
  • Text

• There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • World
  • Done
  • History

• Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Yourself

• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Universe
  • Chance

• Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • Sleep

• I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • Black
  • Myself

• I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Star
  • Organization
  • New England Patriots

• I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Life
  • Poverty
  • My Life

• If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • World
  • Compassion

• I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Stage

• It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

  

  E. B. White
  • Man
  • Planet
  • Club

• My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Never
  • Driving
  • Say

• I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Important
  • Society
  • Most

• Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • I Can

• I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Write

• I have a pig valve.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Pig
  • Valve

• Fourth, lucky people have a special ability to turn bad luck into good fortune. Of all four defining factors involved in luck, Wiseman believes this one plays the most important role in survival.

  

  Ben Sherwood
  • Ability
  • Role
  • Believes

• I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Singing

• At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Up
  • School
  • Said

• I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl

• We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.

  

  Jeff Ament

• As an ardent supporter of the Nietzschean conception of the eternal recurrence, I firmly believe that one cannot validate the totality of a life unless one accepts and embraces all the experiences that comprise it. That said, I sometimes wish I'd gone to film school.

  

  Dave Itzkoff
  • Life
  • Believe
  • School