David Gest Quotes

No, but Liza took went and took away from me, possibly my livelihood.

David Gest

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• My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Think
  • Science
  • Mistake

• Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Mind
  • Black

• For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Good
  • Me
  • Doing

• Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Think
  • Feeling

• A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Care
  • Human

• I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Know
  • Born
  • Appearance

• Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Passion
  • Movies
  • Will

• In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • World
  • Good
  • Home

• I don't want any yes – men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Men
  • Job
  • Truth

• I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Lies
  • Danger

• I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Movies
  • Two
  • Shades

• I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Kind
  • Actor
  • Robot

• Everybody has a job to do, and you just know that every day you have to do what it takes to get there. Of course, everybody has those days where you don't feel like doing it. I'm just like anybody else in that respect. But there's a difference between not feeling like doing it and not doing it period.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Job
  • Feeling
  • Respect

• My dad planned a road trip every summer, so we always did the road trip. We did the Eastern Seaboard and learned about the history of the United States.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • History
  • Dad
  • Road

• I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up

• You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages - they haven't ended yet.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Dark

• More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Work
  • Men
  • Die

• It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Love
  • Read
  • Emergency

• Two things of opposite natures seem to depend On one another, as a man depends On a woman, day on night, the imaginedOn the real. This is the origin of change. Winter and spring, cold copulars, embrace And forth the particulars of rapture come.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Real
  • Night
  • Cold

• As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart.

  

  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Heart

• No, but Liza took went and took away from me, possibly my livelihood.

  

  David Gest