David Rakoff Quotes

Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. Well, of course not Adam and Steve. Never Adam and Steve. It's Adam and Steven.

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• I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Two
  • Jazz
  • Bass

• The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Women
  • Management
  • Forward

• Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Black
  • Community

• I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Believe
  • Earth
  • Lord

• In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • God
  • House
  • Me

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• I have no mouth, and I must scream.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Mouth
  • Scream
  • Must

• When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Great
  • Music
  • God

• If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Find
  • Dogs

• A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • She
  • Woman
  • Care

• I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Sleep
  • Which
  • Debilitating

• A good fight scene is really a good love scene.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Good
  • Love
  • Fight

• I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Help
  • Opportunities

• I grew up a really shy kid, but I always surrounded myself with a lot funny people. It depends on the day - if I feel like being quiet, I will be. I'm not a complete goofball, though.

  

  Manny Montana
  • People
  • Up
  • Funny

• I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • Think
  • Way

• I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• Put out great music, and that's that.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Great
  • Music
  • Put

• Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to hide an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education.

  

  Leon Krier
  • Education
  • Design
  • Memorial

• We're baseball players. We don't need guys telling us, 'Hey, you need to hurry. Hey, you need to do this. Hey, you need to step up.' We are professionals, we can do that without anybody telling us. I'm OK with it, but we need to do it on our own.

  

  Big Money
  • Need
  • Professionals
  • Baseball Player

• She was not so naive as to think there was any necessary relation between religion and morality, or that if there was a relation it was likely to be a benevolent one.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • She

• I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over.

  

  Drew Brees

• Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Courage
  • Fortune
  • Riches

• Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. Well, of course not Adam and Steve. Never Adam and Steve. It's Adam and Steven.

  

  David Rakoff