David Mitchell Quotes

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

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• I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.

  

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• You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

  

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• The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

  

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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.

  

  Candy Crowley
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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.

  

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

  

  Ralph Ellison
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Safra A. Catz
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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.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Real
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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.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
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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.

  

  Irving Stone
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• There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
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• On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.

  

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

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Work
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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.

  

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

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • 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.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • World
  • Cat
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• Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.

  

  Douglas Coupland
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• I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Dream
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• Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• From the leg lamp to Ralphie's tongue getting stuck on a frozen pole to that BB-gun incident, 'A Christmas Story' has left its mark on all our brains, so much so that it sometimes feels like this story is our own.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
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• I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

  

  Derek Bailey
  • People

• False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

  

  David Mitchell