David Foster Quotes

I told Celine Dion not to record that 'Titanic' song. That's about as big as you can get. 'Flashdance?' I thought, 'Welder by day, disco dancer by night - who wants to see that?'

David Foster

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• Titanic

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• To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Faith
  • Religious
  • Moral

• He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Kind
  • Learn
  • Be kind

• Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Business
  • Kings

• Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Acting

• From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Family
  • Kids
  • House

• As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Find
  • Cooking

• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Few
  • Ear

• By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • World
  • Past
  • Education

• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Together
  • Ending

• If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Conscious

• I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Study
  • Everything

• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Emperor
  • Above

• I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Long
  • Book

• (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Car
  • Thought

• I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Think
  • You
  • Inspired

• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Society
  • Understand
  • Tools

• I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Play
  • Wife
  • Queen

• Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • May
  • True
  • High

• I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Time
  • God
  • Death

• My father is a big guy; he's had a quadruple bypass surgery, and that's scary. Those are real things that happen in families with overweight people, and I don't want that.

  

  Chrissy Metz
  • People
  • Real
  • Father

• When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy, and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Magic

• I like bowling. I suck at it, but I like it. You know what's so funny? I have days when I'm absolutely great at doing it, and then I have days when I just don't understand it.

  

  Lil' Kim
  • Great
  • Funny

• I told Celine Dion not to record that 'Titanic' song. That's about as big as you can get. 'Flashdance?' I thought, 'Welder by day, disco dancer by night - who wants to see that?'

  

  David Foster
  • Song
  • Night
  • Titanic