David Dobkin Quotes
On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
Quotes to Explore
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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I'm a political conservative.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
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Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.
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One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.
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Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
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Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
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I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can't do comedy.
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In the world of comedy, there's this: "If it's going badly, get off. If it's going well, get off". You can't argue with that either.
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I do like Hank Pym.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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In the same manner as we are cautioned by religion to show our faith by our works we may very properly apply the principle to philosophy, and judge of it by its works; accounting that to be futile which is unproductive, and still more so, if instead of grapes and olives it yield but the thistle and thorns of dispute and contention.
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On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
