David Hare Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
-
I love cycling.
-
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
-
If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
-
Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
-
A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
-
The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
-
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-
Men always like what the ladies like.
-
I don't have any regrets at all.
-
I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.
-
My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.
-
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
-
I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But I didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran.
-
A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.
-
Should someone ask me whether I would indicate the West such as it is today as a model to my country, frankly I would have to answer negatively. No, I could not recommend your society in its present state as an ideal for the transformation of ours.
-
When push comes to shove, baseball is one of my favorite things in the world.
-
I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for.
-
In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
-
I have come to know that it [death] is an important thing to keep in mind - not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die I can ever truly begin to live.
-
I knew nothing when I first met him. He taught me to see things through his eyes. Dalí was my teacher. He let me use his brushes, his paint and his canvas, so that I could play around while he was painting for hours and hours in the same studio. Surrealism was a good school for me. Listening to Dalí talk was better than going to any art school.
-
When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
-
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
