David McNeill Quotes

No doubt about it, the higher you achieve, the higher you reach.

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• I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Me
  • Angel
  • Drink

• It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Day
  • End
  • End Of The Day

• In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Time
  • Children
  • Black

• It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Halloween

• My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Father
  • Night
  • Small

• I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Loved

• Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fun

• The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Black
  • Community
  • Progress

• The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Memory
  • Two
  • Collection

• Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Important
  • America
  • Success

• Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I have a biology degree, okay?

  

  Rand Paul
  • Degree
  • Biology
  • Okay

• I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Baseball
  • Fame
  • Assumptions

• Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Love
  • Popular
  • Dangerous

• Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

  

  Karel Capek
  • You
  • Passionate
  • Hear

• I've never personally been anorexic.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Never
  • Been
  • Personally

• Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Information
  • Twitter
  • Blank

• I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Good
  • Audience
  • Smell

• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Good
  • Work

• I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene 1979. I thought it was ideal that anyone could just put together a group and make it work. Then, of course, it became a little more detailed after starting it and realizing that it was something serious, not just a one-off situation. I had to put a lot more into it. Also I did it to get a lot of things out of my system, things that had been put there while I was growing up in my family. A sort of exorcizing of demons.

  

  Roger Alan Painter Christian Death
  • Together
  • Serious
  • Realizing

• Variety shows didn't disappear; it was the caliber of the artists, the classic vaudevillians that have passed on. They are gone, so there's a different caliber performer that's come along that hasn't had the time to work in the small clubs and get the experience.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.

  

  Andrew Weil

• The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Blood
  • Shame

• No doubt about it, the higher you achieve, the higher you reach.

  

  David McNeill
  • Doubt