David Reuben Quotes

I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.

David Reuben

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• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • World
  • Military
  • Financial

• Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Team

• Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Audience
  • United States

• Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Trust

• I know I'm profane. And outspoken.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Know
  • Outspoken
  • Profane

• The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • American
  • Society
  • Freedom

• I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Pleasure

• All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Good
  • Way
  • Screen

• I am really addicted to music.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Music
  • Addicted

• You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Best
  • Always

• My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • School
  • Mother
  • City

• The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Night
  • Saturday

• I don't even think my children are aware of what I've done. When somebody will ask me for my autograph, Spenser-Margaret will say, 'You must watch 'Charlie's Angels.' You know, that's like all I've done to them.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Children
  • Done
  • Think

• I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Never
  • Now

• I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Meaning
  • Consequence

• I am an inventor of music.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Inventor

• For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Experience
  • You
  • Early

• A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Shoes
  • Sexy
  • Witty

• I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Like
  • Always
  • Angry

• What differentiates leaders is the ability to recover following a mistake. I make mistakes all the time, but I cop to them, apologize, and move on. Contrition is powerful.

  

  Dana Walden
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Mistake

• 'Shark Tank''s participatory. There's so many people on Twitter for this show, and they all feel like they're in the tank, making calls on this stuff.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • People

• Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Prejudice
  • Beliefs
  • Philosophers

• I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.

  

  David Reuben