David Letterman Quotes

Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.

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• I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Gender

• I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Flying
  • Own
  • Leave

• Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Health

• Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Man

• When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Something

• My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mother
  • Fight
  • Nurse

• If we do our job right, then we have everything to stand on. If we don't do our job, we have everything to lose on.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Job
  • Lose
  • Stand

• I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Time
  • Children
  • Right

• I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Best
  • Car
  • Teacher

• If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Right

• I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Acting
  • Theatre
  • Process

• Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • World
  • Mistakes
  • Making Mistakes

• I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • World
  • War
  • Period

• I've heard from pre-K and kindergarten teachers alike that the Common Core is inappropriately pushing written literacy standards when the focus should be on the development of oral literacy skills. And that's actually delaying the development of literacy.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Focus
  • Development
  • Skills

• Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes-while not becoming an extremist. Most companies don't do paradox very well.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Resilience

• In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • God

• Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Truth

• I do really like doing animated movies. I like watching animated movies, and I always have. That's something I didn't let go of, from when I was a kid. It's always exciting for me to get to do that. Animated movies are so rarely bad.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Exciting

• Ants are a curious race.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Race
  • Curious
  • Ants

• I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Best

• The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.

  

  James Vincent McMorrow
  • Music
  • House

• As well as might we say that a ship is built, loaded and manned for the sake of any particular pilot, instead of acknowledging that the pilot is made for the sake of the ship, her lading, and her crew, who are always the owners in the political vessel; as to say that kingdoms were instituted for kings, not kings for kingdoms.

  

  Henry St. John
  • Ship
  • Pilot
  • Acknowledging

• Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.

  

  David Letterman