David Copperfield Quotes

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

David Copperfield

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• We're a nation of celebrity and hero worshipers, so much so that we make heroes out of those who aren't, such as John Wayne: a patriotic, red-blooded, two-fisted American who spent the Second World War in the trenches on the movie lots of Hollywood.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • World
  • American
  • War

• The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Society
  • Respect

• Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Best

• Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Strong
  • Me
  • Religious

• My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Golf
  • Greatest

• Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Door
  • Looking
  • Citizens

• I think fine dining should be part of the community where it is, more than just for the people who are going to make a special occasion.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Think
  • Community

• I haven't watched that much TV, to be honest. To be honest, I don't watch that many films anymore - partly because I don't have time; secondly, because I watch a lot of sports, and I love watching sports.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Honest

• Modeling is exciting, but I certainly felt frustrated that I couldn't speak out or express myself. I always wanted to express my desires in some other medium.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Myself
  • Speak
  • Modeling

• I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Try

• I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Politics
  • Interest

• I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Different
  • Accept

• Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking

• Most comic writers like to think they could play it straight if only their public would let them. Waugh is able to be grave without difficulty for he has always been comic for serious reasons. He has his own, almost romantic sense of propriety.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Serious
  • Romantic

• If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Men
  • Effort

• Las veces que me comprendo un poco, comprendo menos a los demás.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Inspiration
  • Television
  • Shonda Rhimes

• The Georgia Dome was my home field, brother. There's no question about it. I played my first football game there as an Atlanta Falcon.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Home
  • Game
  • Question

• A chart that weighs some ad-supported streams the same as a pay stream... encourages artists to promote free tiers to have a No. 1 record. That's great for the tech companies, but not for artists.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Great
  • Free

• I love a great myth. I love a superhero origin story.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Great
  • Superhero

• The mind, after being confined at home for a while, sends the imagination abroad in quest of new treasures; and the body may as well accompany it...

  

  Hannah Webster Foster
  • Imagination
  • Treasures
  • Quest

• It's always about bringing in the numbers, the viewership. That's what gets you the money.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Money

• I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

  

  David Copperfield