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

• Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Control

• 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

• As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be simplified. The voice of a woman poet would, I was sure, have precluded such distortion. It did not exist.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Women
  • Woman
  • 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

• Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Life
  • Enjoy

• 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 love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

  

  James Franco
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• If we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and President [Pervez] Musharraf will not act, we will.

  

  Barack Obama
  • High
  • Value
  • President

• This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Charge
  • Deliver
  • Ink

• I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the time, so being an actor lets me live out the fantasy of living out 100,000 different lifetimes in one, without all of the repercussions.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Time
  • Different
  • Live

• Life itself is the proper binge.

  

  Julia Child
  • Life
  • Proper
  • Binge

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

  

  David Lange