David Letterman Quotes

President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger.

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• 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Language
  • Grit

• A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Children
  • Society
  • Smiling

• I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Money
  • New

• I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Myself
  • Football
  • Player

• Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Experience
  • American
  • Design

• All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Done
  • Art
  • Me

• They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Mind
  • She
  • Together

• I put my heart in my work.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Put

• I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'

  

  Karen Robards
  • Know
  • Thought
  • Writer

• I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• If it's music, I love it.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Music
  • Love
  • I Love

• Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Poetry
  • Better
  • Voice

• Consider this: The United States held its first presidential election in 1789. It marked the first peaceful transfer of executive power between parties in the fourth presidential election in 1801, and it took another 200 years' worth of presidential elections before the courts had to settle an election.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Power
  • Presidential
  • Election

• I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Thinking

• In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Real
  • Dope

• If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn't feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Artist
  • Voice
  • Impact

• I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those '60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Think
  • Society
  • Amazing

• Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Decision
  • Goal
  • Discussion

• They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Night
  • Hand
  • Dark

• One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in – I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Business
  • Remember

• President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger.

  

  David Letterman