David Naughton Quotes

As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.

David Naughton

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• For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Long
  • Son
  • Rights

• I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Time
  • Know
  • Trouble

• Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Experience
  • Understanding
  • Better

• I study to learn, to be an educated person.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Study
  • Learn
  • Educated

• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Questions

• Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• We need to realize that our path to transformation is through our mistakes. We're meant to make mistakes, recognize them, and move on to become unlimited.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Path
  • Mistakes
  • Transformation

• Friendships are discovered rather than made.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Made
  • Friendships
  • Rather

• I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Age
  • Doing
  • Young

• I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Look
  • Walk
  • View

• I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • She
  • Passing
  • Net

• The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Different
  • Job
  • Giving

• I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Live
  • My Life

• You may laugh of the idea of the good will of others in Hollywood, but it's no laughing matter if you don't have it.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Good
  • May

• Accomplishment, the feeling of absorption in the flow, of mastery for its own sake, of knowing how to do this thing, is what keeps all of us doing what we do, if we like what we do at all.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Feeling
  • Accomplishment

• Portability should be the default.

  

  Larry Wall

• Now, these men weren’t idiots. They were geniuses who paid a high price for their genius because the rest of their thinking was other-world. A genius is someone who travels to truth by an unexpected path. Unfortunately, unexpected paths lead to disaster in everyday life.

  

  Alfred Bester
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Up
  • Good
  • Pretty

• The thing that makes us know that this "latter rain" that is flooding the world with the glory of God is of the Lord, is because the devil is not in such business.

  

  William J. Seymour
  • World
  • Rain
  • Latter

• Here in the United States, hopefully, what we're building are not just pyramids, are not icons to one pharaoh. What we're building is a culture and a way of living together that we can look back on and say, [This] was good, was inclusive, was kind, was innovative, was able to fulfill the dreams of as many people as possible.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other than the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction... Today there is a “NO” which shall weaken the powerful and strengthen the weak: the “NO” to war.

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • War
  • Today
  • Desire

• As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.

  

  David Naughton