David Christian Quotes

All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.

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• There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Relationships
  • Celebration

• Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Different
  • Long
  • Night

• Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Doing
  • Look

• I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Spirit
  • Generosity
  • United

• The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Money
  • Song
  • Single

• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Three

• I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learn
  • Difficult
  • Languages

• And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Bored
  • Worst
  • Destructive

• There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Men
  • Man
  • Fear

• The beginning of the shows are different. One time we'll say 'Hello, Denver'. Another time we'll say 'Hello, Memphis'. It's always different.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Time
  • Different
  • Always

• People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Sources

• I'm religiously opposed to religion.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Religion
  • Opposed

• Children are our future, and God loves the children.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Children
  • Future

• He’s tough, ma’am,-tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.

  

  Charles Dickens

• When I was a baby, my mom used to have a dance school, and she used to teach classes there. We didn't have money for a babysitter, so she always brought me with her to the dancing school. Back then, I was already watching and listening to Michael Jackson for a long time.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • People
  • Death

• USNA had a great engineering school, which was one of my interests, and I knew I would benefit from the great discipline and accountability that Navy provides.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Great
  • School
  • Discipline

• More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Communication

• I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in examining all the nuances and idiosyncrasies of particular stories of everyday people. And if that doesn't happen, then I usually transplant myself and my own stories to a particular historical event. Which is why you'll see me, the first person pronoun, interacting in a song about Carl Sandburg, or you'll find my [sic] interacting with Saul Bellow. It's sort of a re-rendering of history and making it my own.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Everyday

• People look at me, and they have a certain perception, and they slap a label on me. The guy you saw in a wrestling ring is not who I am.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • People
  • Guy
  • Perception

• However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

  

  David Douglass
  • Earth

• All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.

  

  David Christian