David Letterman Quotes

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?

David Letterman

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• I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Wish
  • Best
  • Organization

• You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Need

• Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.

  

  Ma Jun
  • High
  • Chinese
  • Pressure

• Here I stand, I'm your man.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Man
  • Here
  • Your

• Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

  

  Livy
  • Fire
  • Envy

• You've got to know who you are before you step into this business, because if you're trying to find it, you'll probably wind up being somebody else, that you probably don't even like. 2

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Business

• In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Heart
  • Identity

• My copy of 'Night' is dog-eared. The pages are filled with plastic colored 'flags' that are blue, green, purple, and yellow. Vocabulary is in the margins; phrases and sentences are underlined, some with pencil, and some with pen. Many words are circled.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Night
  • Words
  • Dog

• Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Cute

• I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.

  

  Lorraine Toussaint
  • Work

• Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

  

  James Henry Breasted
  • Today
  • Childhood

• Hello, my name is Lisa Jakub. But most people in a restaurant/dentist's office/yoga studio dressing room, call me 'Hey, you look like that girl from 'Mrs. Doubtfire'/'Independence Day'/'Rambling Rose.' There is a good reason for that. I am that girl. More accurately, I was that girl.

  

  Lisa Jakub
  • People
  • Good
  • Girl

• I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.

  

  Dizzy Gillespie
  • Time
  • Music
  • History

• Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.

  

  Edward M. Lerner

• We can go years without making a picture, and that's fine.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Picture

• If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Tired

• We're downtown New Yorkers and had very close proximity to the events of September 11th. Like everybody on the island of Manhattan, we were impacted by it in so many ways in terms of what we saw, what we felt, what our daily experience became in the wake of it.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Experience
  • Impact
  • September 11

• I tend to treat everyone like equals. That is my downfall, though, because Oprah is Oprah, and Barack is Barack, and you've gotta come in with a certain level of respect and admiration and love while still having that respect. Look at them - these people are, at this point, royalty. I think I get a little too chummy.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • People
  • Respect

• I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

  

  Daniela Ruah
  • Thanksgiving

• I was always a courageous woman, capable of confronting governments but not men.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Men

• Because of the 9/11 attacks, the framing of terrorism by politicians, the media, and the public too often in the past decade and a half has been that it is Islamist political violence that is the terrorism we need to be concerned about.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Political
  • Past
  • Violence

• I should probably be careful admitting this, but sometimes, when my characters are having a disagreement, it's a disagreement I'm having with myself. I can see both sides of the argument.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

• It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?

  

  David Letterman
  • Thanksgiving