David Gest Quotes

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

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• When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Run

• Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Time
  • Together
  • Now

• The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • People
  • Time
  • Change

• During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Crime
  • Worst

• I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Think
  • Loved
  • Old

• How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Cool
  • Said
  • Sexy

• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Politics
  • Decisions
  • Doors

• I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Religious
  • More
  • Say

• You're either ghetto or you're not.

  

  Vince Staples
  • You
  • Ghetto
  • Either

• Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Me
  • Never
  • Voice

• All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Friendships

• Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Government
  • Afraid
  • Marry

• It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Good
  • Kind
  • Star

• I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Business
  • Movies

• I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • God
  • Media

• The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • World
  • Writing
  • Art

• We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and pursue our calling as beggars.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Business
  • Fashion

• I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

  

  T-Pain
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Name

• Everyone's first thought is "These women are going to take advantage of you" or "Someone's only going to date you because you're famous." That stuff's not really an issue because that's super-easy to see through.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Women
  • Famous
  • Stuff

• It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Important
  • Children
  • Education

• Quite frankly, I'm a member of the investigative committee, one of the senior members of the panel. I don't take our investigative facts and information from a magazine or some article.

  

  John Mica
  • Senior

• With our hectic lives, a dose of comedy is a must.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Comedy

• If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

  

  David Gest
  • Famous