David Gest Quotes

I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.

David Gest

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• I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Artist
  • Better
  • Explore

• I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Light
  • Show
  • Darkness

• I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Girl
  • Amazing
  • Myself

• 'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Me
  • Relationship

• We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

  

  P. D. James
  • Good
  • Friends
  • English

• Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • World
  • Old
  • Sail

• Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Time
  • Fate
  • Go

• I'm not even kind of a lesbian.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Kind
  • Lesbian
  • Even

• There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Because
  • Then
  • Were

• Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • End

• Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Job
  • Success

• Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Great
  • I Can
  • Reach

• If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • Happy
  • Play
  • Always

• To be silent is to be passive.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Silent
  • Passive

• That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Why
  • Lost
  • End

• Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Transformation
  • Your
  • Beyond

• But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Matter

• I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't do something, if I know I can't do it I'm the first to raise my hand and say, 'I can't do that.' But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, 'Really? Really? You think I - yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.'

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Hand
  • Quality

• And if I were to open you up - would you see anything less remarkable? Less intricately dazzling, in its squelching, spongy way? Lungs and heart and spleen, and all the rest - ticking away, as it were? Yet you walk down the boulevard, and pass any number of such wonderful devices, all ticking away as they walk, and think it no great marvel.

  

  K. W. Jeter
  • Up
  • Great
  • Heart

• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • World
  • Brain
  • Air

• I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.

  

  David Gest