David Letterman Quotes

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• I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Paper
  • Shower

• When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Look
  • Civilization
  • Pool

• One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Think
  • Painting

• I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mind

• To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Modern
  • Expect
  • Intellect

• The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Success
  • Benefits
  • U.S.

• Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Everest
  • Forecast

• The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Name
  • Will
  • Redskins

• With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Up
  • Character
  • Parents

• It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Time
  • Long
  • Truth

• My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians

• I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • Community
  • Gay

• Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Reading
  • Joy

• I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Career
  • City
  • Now

• I'm from Georgia, and everybody gathers around food in the South.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Food
  • Everybody
  • Georgia

• Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Opportunity
  • Something

• Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Live
  • Real
  • Why

• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Live
  • Hope

• To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Right

• I like a man who's going to tell me 'No!' sometimes.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Man
  • Me
  • Like

• If he (Spock) didn’t have any emotions, he wouldn’t be interesting. Actually, Spock does have a sense of compassion though he won’t allow himself to believe that. I admire his logic. It’s so uncluttered. I appreciate the ability to be precise. I like to think that I am logical-but sometimes I look back and wonder if the things I do are logical.

  

  Leonard Nimoy
  • Believe
  • Interesting
  • Wonder

• Hey, John, I got a question!  You need a ride to the airport?

  

  David Letterman
  • Question