David Bryan Quotes

We keep trying to get better - constantly working at it. We love to tour. I love to play in front of people. You sit there, and everybody's smiling, and you're smiling. It's a good time.

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• Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • People
  • Music
  • Speak

• We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

  

  T-Pain
  • Learn
  • Surroundings
  • Adjust

• I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Why
  • Success
  • Day

• There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.

  

  Rahman Baba
  • Doubt
  • Become
  • Donkey

• I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Free
  • Model

• Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Work
  • Change
  • Media

• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Become
  • Atheist

• I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • God
  • Rights
  • Capitalism

• I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I'll be seen. I'd rather keep a low profile.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Know
  • Places
  • Uncomfortable

• Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Doing
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Men
  • Think
  • Reading

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Start
  • Looking

• I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.

  

  T.I.
  • Reality
  • Television

• You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Real
  • Know

• I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Best
  • Enjoy

• I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • Work
  • Fashion

• I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • Love
  • City
  • Moving

• It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
  • Outfit
  • Compensate

• Race is the true protagonist of the American novel. Our most popular classic fictions have known this, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Beloved;' all these books take on race or talk it out, often in other forms; they are less 'horror stories for boys' than ghost stories from a haunted conscience.

  

  Kevin Young
  • American
  • True
  • Popular

• My father took me to my first game in 1971, and I fell in love with the Redskins and the NFL right then. I was hooked. And we didn't even win that game.

  

  Daniel Snyder
  • Father
  • Game

• As coaches say, it's about finding your role. We're coming together as a team.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • Together
  • Team

• At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at that time - 45 percent - were illiterate, while 94 percent of white citizens were literate.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Time

• We keep trying to get better - constantly working at it. We love to tour. I love to play in front of people. You sit there, and everybody's smiling, and you're smiling. It's a good time.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
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