Dave Willis Quotes

I'm not a big reggae dude. I have maybe two other reggae albums.

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• I don't have any nicknames.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Any
  • Nicknames

• I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Me
  • Always
  • Acting

• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Looks
  • Flowers

• The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Political
  • Leadership
  • Busy

• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Try

• I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Think
  • Choices
  • Big

• If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Feeling
  • Stop
  • Body

• During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • Water
  • First
  • Existence

• There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Missing

• For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • American
  • Community
  • Training

• When I'm out with my girlfriends at the bar, and I see some young 18-year old boy, just for fun I say, 'Hi honey. Do you like girls? Do you like girls exclusively? Oh, good.'

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Boy

• The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Animal
  • Rude

• One can only imagine how Iranians or Afghans would deal with unelected judges moving to de-Islamicize their nations.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Moving
  • Imagine
  • Judges

• I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Never
  • Had
  • Agent

• I don't think there is a perfect athlete. But if I had to come close to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ability, he's humble and he's very good at what he does.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Good
  • Think
  • Perfect

• As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Society
  • Culture

• As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Up
  • School
  • Help

• I went to Coachella once, and it was only to go see Leonard Cohen. I got in the car and sat through all the crazy traffic in L.A. to get there - instead of a two hour drive, it takes, like, six hours. Then I watched his set and turned around and left. I just so wanted to see him perform in the desert.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Crazy
  • Car
  • Desert

• Today's Real Man is probably closest to Spencer Tracy or Gary Cooper in spirit; he realizes that while birds, flowers, poetry, and small children do not add to the quality of life in quite the same manner as a Super Bowl and six-pack of Budweiser, he's learned to appreciate them anyway.

  

  Bruce Feirstein
  • Life
  • Children
  • Real

• It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Artist

• Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Knowledge
  • Statistics
  • Satirist

• I'm not a big reggae dude. I have maybe two other reggae albums.

  

  Dave Willis