David Letterman Quotes

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

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• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Moderation
  • Excess

• A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Japanese

• In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Time
  • Work
  • Game

• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Book
  • Experiences
  • Sell

• Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • History
  • Destiny

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Man
  • Library

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Athlete

• There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

  

  Harry Bridges
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  • Life
  • World

• Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • More
  • Making Money

• We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Want
  • Never
  • Results

• When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.

  

  Jack Dangermond
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• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Being
  • Interdependence

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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  • More
  • Generation

• 'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Die
  • Kill

• I use Olay Total Effects Tone Correcting CC Cream in place of foundation post-workout. I absolutely love that it's quick, easy, and something I can use on the go. It evens out my skin tone, provides SPF 15 protection, and leaves my skin feeling breathable, healthy, and moisturized.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • Feeling
  • Workout

• We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Friends

• It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.

  

  Randy West
  • People
  • Work
  • Same

• You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Money
  • Hair

• New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

  

  David Letterman
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