David H. Koch Quotes
When I was a bachelor with a different girl on my arm every week, people didn't think I was quite legitimate.
Quotes to Explore
-
I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
-
Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
-
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
-
I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
-
My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
-
Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
-
If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
-
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
-
You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
-
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
-
I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
-
I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
-
Life is not easy in politics.
-
That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.
-
I've had a few ditty hits.
-
I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
-
The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.
-
I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
-
When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
-
I used to be the class clown. I was the funny kid. That's why it was so hard for people to understand that I rap, because for a long time, they didn't take me seriously for who I was. By, like, eighth grade, I was really rapping.
-
There are lots of people who are red-carpet types, but that's not me.
-
It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse. And I've suspected that this optimism blinds many in Silicon Valley to the real struggles in other parts of the country. So I decided to move home to Ohio.
-
Running fills the cup that has to pour out for others. Running feeds the soul that has a responsibility to nourish. Running sets the anchor that limits the drift of the day. Running clears the mind that has a myriad of challenges to solve. Running tends to the self so that selfishness can subside.
-
When I was a bachelor with a different girl on my arm every week, people didn't think I was quite legitimate.
