David Alpay Quotes

You either like something, or you don't; you won't change your opinion because somebody explains why you should like it.

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• Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
  • Forget
  • Legal

• Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Always
  • Once
  • Cubs

• I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • World
  • Long
  • Writing

• As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Me
  • Proud

• I'm a slow starter.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Slow
  • Starter

• The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Study

• The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Small

• Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Money
  • Success
  • Support

• I am undeniably afraid of the dark!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Dark
  • Afraid

• Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

  

  Camilo Jose Cela
  • Literature
  • Lives
  • Times

• In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • World
  • Political
  • Democracy

• With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Why
  • Food
  • Change

• It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

  

  Kate Millett
  • People
  • Believe
  • See

• Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Earth

• I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Sleep

• Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Idea
  • Bed

• We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Mind
  • Real

• The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Progress
  • End

• In order to know the true situation of a Planet at any particular time, the small set of balls are to be put each on its respective axis; then the winch to be turned round until each index points to the given time.

  

  David Rittenhouse
  • Time
  • True
  • Small

• As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.

  

  Deborah Wiles
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• I did every sport under the sun while growing up.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Sun

• Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Prejudice

• You either like something, or you don't; you won't change your opinion because somebody explains why you should like it.

  

  David Alpay
  • Why
  • Opinion