David Mellor Quotes

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

David Mellor

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• I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Truth
  • Responsibility
  • Media

• All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Nothing

• The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Country
  • Picture
  • Process

• I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Up
  • Work
  • Father

• The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • First
  • Step
  • Key

• One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Work
  • Man
  • Price

• My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Perception
  • Mystery

• I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Racism

• There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Me
  • Things
  • Try

• I want to win championships.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Want
  • Win
  • Championships

• I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Eye
  • Model
  • Cooking

• I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Idea

• You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • You
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Father
  • Day
  • Oil

• Book publishing was never a heaven 'run by editors', and it is by no means today a hell 'run by accountants.' If our 'sole interest' was 'instant profit,' not only would we never do any number of the things we actually do every day, we probably wouldn’t be in book publishing at all.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Book
  • Today
  • Heaven

• An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

  

  Avicenna
  • Death

• Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Stone
  • Grain
  • Palace

• Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Good
  • Light
  • Peace

• American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • American
  • Problems

• My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Country

• Historically, gold has always been a safe haven against inflation and a safe haven in times of political instability.

  

  John Paulson
  • Political
  • Gold

• Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

  

  David Mellor