David Beckham Quotes
I've never seen myself as a celebrity, but I see it in a positive way, the fact that people are still interested in most parts of my life.
Quotes to Explore
-
I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
-
I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
-
The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
-
Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
-
If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
-
Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
-
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
-
The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
-
But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
-
There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
-
If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
-
I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!
-
I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
-
I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
-
I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.
-
I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
-
Life is an incurable disease.
-
After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.
-
Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
-
I'm convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we're eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don't come back? What if they stay there?
-
The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
-
If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
-
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
-
I've never seen myself as a celebrity, but I see it in a positive way, the fact that people are still interested in most parts of my life.
