David Lange Quotes

On seeing a machine labelled 'media steriliser', Lange quipped: 'Have that sent to my office immediately.'

David Lange

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• I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Different
  • Women
  • You

• Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Perfect
  • Place
  • Resilience

• It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Real
  • Game
  • Fire

• People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • Treat

• A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Work
  • Job
  • Career

• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Creative

• When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fear

• I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?

  

  Bea Arthur
  • God
  • Comedy
  • Voice

• I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Politics

• You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Time
  • Women
  • Woman

• My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Myself
  • Criticism
  • Opinions

• I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• If a man has any genuine talent, he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Sacrifice

• En lo superficial, si no eres superficial, necesitas que te lleve de la mano alguien superficial.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Work

• I already have two movies in the can, low-key, which are 'Vincent-N-Roxxy' and 'Keanu' with Key and Peele, which is my first comedy, and it's going to be super dope, definitely funny. They're so great, and they've been such life coaches to me.

  

  Jason Mitchell
  • Life
  • Great
  • Funny

• That sort of lack of awareness on the part of an activist about the constraints of our political system and the constraints on this office, I think, sometimes would leave me to mutter under my breath. Very rarely did I lose it publicly. Yeah, usually I'd just smile.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Smile

• The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

  

  Mike Ditka
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Athlete

• When you're a big sister, it's a great job. I don't know how little sisters feel about their job, but when you're a big sister, you're supposed to take care of everything. And you feel good about it. I do.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Great
  • Job

• On seeing a machine labelled 'media steriliser', Lange quipped: 'Have that sent to my office immediately.'

  

  David Lange