David Mitchell Quotes

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

David Mitchell

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• I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.

  

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• Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

  

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• The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

  

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• It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.

  

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• To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

  

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• Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.

  

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• I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.

  

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• I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.

  

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• I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.

  

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• My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.

  

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• One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

  

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• When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

  

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• Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.

  

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• For me, I think that, certainly, the fact that Las Vegas has a gambling aspect to it is far overshadowed by the entertainment value, if you will, family appeal, that you have, the convention appeal. So it does not have disfavor with me, in my opinion, relative to being an NFL city.

  

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• I think all the garbage in the world is thanks to a very small handful of idiots.

  

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• As an actor, I think it is important you at least almost like the character that you're playing. Or can find a personal justification for the character as to why they're doing what they're doing.

  

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• It's how you make decisions that matters, and that ought to be the question that people ask of any candidate for any executive office, whether it's mayor, governor or president. How do you make decisions? Who do you want in the room helping you make those decisions?

  

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• False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

  

  David Mitchell