David Letterman Quotes

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• I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Me
  • Best
  • Thought

• I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Know
  • Athlete
  • Planet

• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Path
  • Choose
  • Privilege

• Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Period

• I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Personality

• On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Different
  • Understood

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Team
  • College

• I have no political aspirations. That's it.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Political
  • Aspirations

• I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Together
  • Cooking
  • Consistency

• We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • God
  • Why
  • Him

• Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Done
  • Community
  • Comedy

• Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Employment
  • Economists

• In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.

  

  Mal Peet
  • You
  • Town
  • Ghosts

• I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Trust
  • Deep

• I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Like
  • Old
  • Disney

• Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by it, but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly without our own control.

  

  Epictetus
  • Good
  • God
  • May

• So Far,So Good........................So What?

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Good

• don't mean to sound weird but I get so immersed in the source material when I'm working on a movie that I kind of lose the line between what I thought of and what was in the book.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Mean

• When I first read the script, I realized that Katie would have to be played as a rather down-to-earth person.

  

  Dorothy McGuire
  • Earth

• A deep ocean under the icy crust of Ganymede opens up further exciting possibilities for life beyond Earth.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Life
  • Up
  • Earth

• There's not a man, woman or child on the face of the earth who doesn't enjoy a tasty beverage.

  

  David Letterman
  • Earth