David Niven Quotes

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

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• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Because
  • Canada
  • Incentive

• I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Together
  • Church

• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Society
  • Comedy

• Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Important
  • Country
  • Most

• I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Strong
  • Rising
  • Personage

• I'm a little angry in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Little

• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • History
  • Game

• I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Believe
  • Business

• My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Me
  • Helps

• The relationship with time changes when you're captive.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Changes

• I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Men
  • Think
  • Doing

• Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Giving
  • Always
  • Grateful

• If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • History
  • Hate

• I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Mad
  • Handle
  • Quick

• I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Week

• Klaus from the Teddybears, Bloodshy and Avant and Mike Snow, they've done lots of Britney Spears production. They went backwards from production to being in a band, which might be cool. I might do that, too, one day.

  

  Diplo
  • Done
  • Band
  • Cool

• As you start the company, you start spending spending spending ahead of revenue but then you come out of it and very quickly you should become a company that spends less than it makes. And what I mean by very quickly, is that window of time should be in that 6 to 8 year time frame. And the reason is because if you build your business model correctly it's almost unavoidable.

  

  Chamath Palihapitiya
  • Mean
  • Reason
  • Window

• My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Parents

• Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love.

  

  Bettie Page
  • Sex

• It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them…

  

  Winston Grime
  • Feelings
  • Fool
  • To Be

• Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

  

  David Niven
  • Work