David Means Quotes

I'm a relatively optimistic kind of guy.

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• I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Successful

• I caught the acting bug from my dad.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Dad
  • Acting
  • Caught

• I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Health
  • Insurance

• The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Good
  • Home
  • Kids

• Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Yourself
  • Changing
  • Analysis

• I don't get bothered by fans.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Fans
  • Get
  • Bothered

• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Live
  • Best

• I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Feel

• Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Matter
  • Egg
  • Duck

• Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Long
  • Money
  • Movie

• I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Film

• England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Power
  • America
  • True

• I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Will
  • Caring
  • Walk

• I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Know
  • Lady
  • Seen

• Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Love
  • Control
  • For Her

• Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Children
  • Trying
  • School

• My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

  

  Lara St. John
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

  

  Augusten Burroughs
  • Culture

• A lot of people don't enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion.

  

  Martin Yan
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• My ideal kinda guy, if I was really gonna go there even though he's married, is Mark Wahlberg. To me he's a little black and white, the kinda guy who would understand if I pull my weave out.

  

  Toni Braxton
  • Guy
  • Black

• In terms of target audience, who cares what a middle-aged guy like me wants; most mainstream are not catering to me at all.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Guy

• I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Kids
  • Action
  • Attention

• I'm a relatively optimistic kind of guy.

  

  David Means
  • Guy
  • Optimistic