David Beckham Quotes

There are certain battles that you pick. When they're not worth picking, they're laughable stories.

David Beckham

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• All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Ends
  • Bring
  • Reckoning

• Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • American
  • Guy

• I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Love
  • Me

• Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I knew I'd have to go to Paris eventually, and I didn't want to be the provincial kid who just turns up and says, 'I want to act.'

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Up
  • Want
  • Paris

• Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Value
  • Criticism
  • Welcome

• My eye? It's a genetic thing. My dad had it, and now I have it. You know, I just found out that it may be correctable a little bit, because it does impair my vision. When I look up, I lose sight in this eye. I think, maybe for other people, it informs the way they see me.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Help
  • Mother
  • Me

• I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Business
  • Never
  • Person

• Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • School
  • House

• I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Always
  • Forever
  • Never

• Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Man
  • Reason
  • Racism

• Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • American
  • Very
  • Adolescence

• Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Music
  • Career
  • Myself

• When people questioned this, the priests simply said, The world has changed. We must change with it.You can imagine how well that went over.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • People
  • World

• We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm human freedom and dignity.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• They used to have clauses and contracts where you can't get bad publicity or you'd get fired. But now bad publicity is good publicity. I just keep working and don't think about it much.

  

  Liza Minnelli
  • Good
  • Bad

• Often, when people don't do so well in a monologue at UCB, it's because they're racking their brain so hard to be funny that they're just not honest and don't just tell a true story, which is what we want.

  

  Matt Besser
  • People
  • True
  • Funny

• I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

  

  Drake
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Light

• I had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going Young Authors Conference where I'd get to hang out with authors all day.

  

  Lisa McMann
  • Moments
  • Teacher

• Spike optioned my first book, 'Now the Hell Will Start,' and he trusted me to write the screenplay, too. That was an awesome learning experience - I grew up watching Spike's movies, and here he was giving me handwritten notes about structure and dialogue. His feedback taught me so much about how to craft a cinematic narrative.

  

  Brendan I. Koerner
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Book

• I'm so freaking happy when I talk to people who saw 'The Greatest.' I love that movie. It was the most intense job.

  

  Johnny Simmons
  • People
  • Job
  • Movie

• There are certain battles that you pick. When they're not worth picking, they're laughable stories.

  

  David Beckham