David Gross Quotes

I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.

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• Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Beach
  • Director
  • Eternity

• I don't care about revenues.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Care
  • About

• Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Risk
  • Better

• I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Bad
  • Night
  • Black

• I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Job
  • Friends
  • London

• If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Like
  • Write
  • Skills

• It has been a tumultuous journey, no doubt. But I feel blessed to have got work.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Doubt
  • Journey

• On the second Michael Jackson trial, speaking on 'Larry King Live,' CNN, Feb. 21, 2003: 'But I'm telling you, this boy, two-thirds of this can be corroborated by other people. So why would he lie about the molestation part? It is in graphic detail. It just seems true... I think Michael Jackson walks. And I think it's a disgrace. He's guilty.'

  

  Nancy Grace
  • People
  • Live
  • Why

• For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Wisdom
  • Ignorance

• The only thing I hate is when bad food is paraded as something great, and people are charging a lot for it.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Great
  • Bad

• That's the beautiful thing about mixed martial arts - and I'll tell people that - you have to think outside of the box.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • People
  • Beautiful

• When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did my first three movies, all in Cuba.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • School

• We should never remain hostages of our past.

  

  Emmerson Mnangagwa
  • Past

• 'White Teeth' has far too many characters, and its plot is tortured. But Smith has an astonishing intellect. She writes sharp dialogue for every age and race - and she's funny as hell.

  

  Jeff Giles
  • She
  • Age
  • Funny

• The truth is many people see a marriage vow as the only way people are going to stay with someone who is sick.

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • People
  • Truth
  • Marriage

• Something that's interesting is how my perspective on different events can change over time even though the events themselves haven't changed. As I get older, I interpret something differently, or I can even interpret a person differently.

  Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Time
  • Different
  • Interesting

• It's hard to get started as a young entrepreneur - often much harder than one would ever realize.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • Entrepreneur

• When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret.

  

  Emilia Fox
  • School
  • Regret

• Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

  

  Ernest Bramah
  • Conversation
  • Exist
  • Cripple

• My first few years in the league, I was relying on my athleticism to get me by, because that's what got me to the NBA. The problem with that is, you end up getting really, really tired by February.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Up
  • Tired
  • February

• 'I've given you my time. It's all I've got to give - it's all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a quarter an hour.'... 'my time so that you can live in your big house on the hill and have all the things that go with it. If anybody has lost anything on this deal, on this arrangement... I've been the loser.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Time
  • Live
  • House

• I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.

  

  David Gross
  • February