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

• 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

• 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

• That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and you can move. Just because you are born in rural Arkansas, whatever, that doesn't define who you are.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Up
  • Good

• I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn't have come first, so second was my version of first.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • School
  • Running

• In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.

  

  Bernard Jensen
  • Management
  • Illness
  • Health Proplems

• I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Ideas
  • Feels
  • Audience

• To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Know
  • Conquer

• I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Young

• It is impossible to say just what I mean!But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:Would it have been worth while If one, settling aPillow or throwing off a shawl,And turning toward the window, should say:'That is not it at all,That is not what I meant, at all.'

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Magic

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

  

  David Letterman