David Letterman Quotes

It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said.

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• I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Star
  • Really
  • Prince

• Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Different
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Funny
  • Nice
  • Save

• I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Remember
  • Something
  • Writer

• When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Character
  • Universe

• I was working in Camden Lock market from the age of 13 to 16, and people often suggested that I should be a model. I knew a girl working on a stall who was with Take Two model agency, so I decided to go along, and they took me on.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • People
  • Age
  • Girl

• Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • True
  • Man

• So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Want
  • Religion
  • Expectations

• I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Work
  • Business
  • Myself

• I'm doing what I want to do.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Want
  • Doing

• I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Want
  • Meaningful
  • Content

• I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Country
  • Imagination
  • Design

• I regard religion as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Fear

• Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Imagination

• We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

  

  Aristotle
  • Beautiful
  • Study
  • Animal

• To Western eyes and ears, Sharia law seems devoid of respect for differences of opinion or complex moral thinking. Certainly the American idea of separation between church and state is lost in Sharia-style governance.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Law

• We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Time
  • Death

• Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • People
  • Magic

• Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.

  

  Rich Little
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Marvelous

• If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Love
  • Respect
  • Die

• As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o

• Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

  

  Dannel Malloy
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• Local people do want to see more police on the streets.

  

  Theresa May
  • People
  • Police
  • Streets

• It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said.

  

  David Letterman