David Letterman Quotes

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

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• My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Pretty
  • Talk
  • I Can

• Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Choose

• I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Going

• California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • California
  • Alien
  • Immigrants

• My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Why
  • Everything
  • Class

• My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Parents
  • Painful

• One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Identity
  • Search

• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Earth
  • Energy
  • Oil

• I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Father
  • Compassion

• Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Long
  • Women

• The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Forest
  • Trees
  • Fires

• It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Women
  • She
  • Character

• Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Before
  • Luxury
  • Printing

• When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.

  

  Loretta Young
  • Dream

• Silicon Valley has infinite access to capital and can lose money indefinitely.

  

  John Landgraf
  • Money

• If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.

  

  Laurieann Gibson
  • Important
  • Amazing
  • Dance

• I love the whole world of dance, because dancing is really the emotions through bodily movement. And however you feel, you just bring out the inner feeling through your mood...people don't think about the importance of it.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • World
  • Dance
  • Feel

• History is a science, no more and no less.

  

  J. B. Bury
  • History
  • Science

• I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

  

  David Letterman
  • Dance