David Paradine Frost Quotes

Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.

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• I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Talking

• I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Life
  • Real
  • Training

• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
  • She
  • News

• Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Important
  • Giving

• Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Benefits
  • Street
  • Trees

• Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Man
  • Jump
  • Down

• The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

  

  Aberjhani
  • America
  • Hope
  • Past

• If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Help
  • Understanding
  • Mistake

• It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • New
  • New York
  • Stock

• I've always loved fashion and, of course, enjoyed my experiences walking on runways, but I love watching the shows as well! Now I understand more why it's such a big deal for the industry and why people work so hard before and during fashion weeks. It's interesting to see the same things from a different angle.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • People
  • Work
  • Fashion

• Can't even see without my vintage Versace frames. I don't go nowhere without them on. I can't even live without them. Every time I throw them on, I see all the haters, and I see where the money at.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Time
  • Live
  • Money

• Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Writing
  • Strong
  • You

• What I love about Popsicle and the moments I can be with Camden is that their whole philosophy is family and these moments that it can create to just sit with my son, read a comic book or go outside on a hot day, take a swim and have a Popsicle treat with him.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Family
  • Book
  • Moments

• Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Age
  • Change
  • Star

• I feel naked without my rings, and don't like walking out of the house without them, even if they do tear half of my sweaters and stab my friends in the eye.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Friends
  • House
  • Eye

• The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Confidence
  • Genius

• We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • President
  • Scary
  • Dumb

• The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Understand
  • First
  • Endeavor

• All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Words
  • Wish
  • Language

• Broadcasting was something, I don't want to say it came easy, but it's something I'm comfortable doing.

  

  Craig Kilborn

• 'If any want to become my followers,' Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him. … 'If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves … and take up their cross.'

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Up
  • Jesus

• I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Walk

• Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.

  

  David Paradine Frost