David Lange Quotes

On Roger Douglas: 'He's like rust, he never sleeps.'

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• You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actresses. Where as in the U.K. you're in a much smaller market there.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • You
  • More
  • Fish

• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Stand For
  • Fall For

• The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Life
  • High
  • Excellence

• I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • New
  • New York
  • Starting

• The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • View
  • Photograph
  • Bring

• On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Day
  • Hurt

• I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Live

• The Iranian government still denies the Holocaust - so you can't take them seriously. And the Israeli government spreads rumours and disinformation about Iran - because it needs to for the creation of panic. I find these theological states - and in this respect, Israel and Iran are twin brothers - very, very dangerous.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Respect
  • Government
  • Find

• When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Why
  • Change
  • Focus

• When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Thought
  • Fresh
  • Them

• When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • World
  • Body
  • Down

• The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Men
  • True

• I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Movies
  • Fan
  • Zombie

• I remember where I was when I first heard 'Boyz N The Hood' – 126th Street and Normandy, South Central, Los Angeles. I remember that I was on my porch. What they described in that song was so vivid and so clear to me because it was the kind of life I was used to witnessing and partly experiencing in my neighborhood.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Song

• I guess I'm just a frustrated cowboy.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Just
  • Cowboy
  • Frustrated

• I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Period
  • Grow
  • Theater

• When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Up
  • Business
  • Career

• For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Why
  • Know

• Some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.

  

  Marjorie Holmes
  • People
  • Faith
  • Wandering

• I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • True
  • Think

• Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• A dyslexic man walks into a bra.

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Walks
  • Bras

• On Roger Douglas: 'He's like rust, he never sleeps.'

  

  David Lange