David Droga Quotes

I'm not embarrassed to be in advertising. But I'm embarrassed by a lot of advertising.

David Droga

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• One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Father
  • Me
  • Memories

• You just remember back when you were watching as a kid and going, 'Man, Sting's so cool,' and now I'm wrestling the guy. It's breathtaking.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Man

• Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Voting

• I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • People
  • Happy
  • Start

• The offseason is when you try to gain strength. You have 162 games during the year, so you've got to pick and choose the times work out.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Work
  • Year
  • Strength

• I could never ever say enough about Matt Amato. He has an indescribable presence; this warm, loving, serene calm with intense interest and excitement bubbling beneath his exterior.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Enough
  • Calm
  • Warm

• People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Reality
  • Small

• My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Easy

• Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Character
  • Powerful
  • Violence

• Clarum et venerabile nomengentibus.

  

  Lucan

• I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Up
  • Live

• Comparing 'Christmas Vacation' to 'It's A Wonderful Life' is the silliest thing. That film starred the greatest movie actor of all time, and the idea that our movie could ever be connected in some fashion to something so brilliant and beautiful always made feel like, 'That's all they had to write about?'

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Life
  • Time
  • Movie

• I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.

  

  David Chase
  • Life

• Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Color

• Good things happen to those who hustle.

  

  Chuck Noll
  • Good
  • Hustle

• I lost interest in being in the public eye.

  

  Phoebe Snow
  • Lost

• The world is under siege, in conflict, but it is enthusiastic about Argentina.

  

  Mauricio Macri
  • World

• Every opportunity that comes your way, you can't take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can't be such an elitist, to say no, that's not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.

  

  Chris Klein
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Smart

• We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Country
  • Reality
  • Successful

• My dad grew up in western Nebraska. I'd visit all the time as a kid, and it's very much like the Wild West. It felt to me like a cowboy movie. Stuff like that made me become this dreamer at a young age.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• My strong game was ping pong. Relentless... steady.

  

  Marv Albert
  • Game
  • Strong

• It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette
  • King

• The truth about Chanel's bespoke femininity is that a woman can do or say whatever she wants as long as she's wearing pearls.

  

  Karen Karbo
  • Long
  • Can Do
  • Femininity

• I'm not embarrassed to be in advertising. But I'm embarrassed by a lot of advertising.

  

  David Droga