David Geffen Quotes

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

David Geffen

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• I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Time
  • Different
  • Training

• Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Dark
  • Car
  • DNA

• The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • May
  • End
  • Smile

• To me, country songs are simple.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Me
  • Simple

• In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Action
  • Play
  • Star

• Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Friends
  • Future
  • Past

• We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the most effective and most important green technologies we have. If - after looking at the data - you aren't in favour of using them responsibly, you aren't an environmentalist.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Important
  • Power
  • Science

• Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Caring

• The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Universe
  • Tree

• There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Respect

• Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Positive
  • Yourself

• Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won’t need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • World
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• The repercussions of the coup on nascent democracies in the Arab world will be destructive. People may soon lose faith in the democratic process, paving the way for the revival of extremist groups...The coup serves to strengthen the radicals, interrupting the course of peaceful change.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • World
  • May

• The program for this evening is not new. You have seen This entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death; you might recall all of the rest - (did you have a good world when you died?) - enough to base a movie on?

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

  

  Albert Pike

• When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Women
  • Lawyer
  • Hats

• I wish I had an origin story for you. When I was four, I was bitten by a radioactive myth.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Wish

• We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.

  

  Albert Wynn

• I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Wish
  • Bed
  • Newspapers

• The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • Science
  • Conclusion
  • Humorous

• How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • You
  • Know
  • Motivational

• Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

  

  David Letterman

• You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

  

  David Geffen