David Pleat Quotes
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I don't know what love means.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
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The investigation of consciousness has come to be regarded suspiciously by most smart people and by most scientists. That's a legacy that began with the Inquisition, which considered non-Christian spiritual inquiry as blasphemous.
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I've done pretty well in my career, and I've watched colleagues who have spent most of the paychecks they receive on shoes and cars rather than bricks and mortar, and that's not me.
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Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?
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He's had a lovely career for the talent he's got.