David Ricardo Quotes

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• My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Business
  • Parents
  • Never

• My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Truth
  • Friends
  • Same

• The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Humble
  • Build
  • Nest

• I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Think
  • Peace
  • Joy

• Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Way
  • Perfect
  • Yourself

• He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Book
  • Want
  • Friend

• I started playing video games, and in 1978 I discovered Dungeons & Dragons and started game-mastering and writing my own adventures and creating my own worlds.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Writing
  • Game
  • Games

• I challenge anyone to tell me there isn't evil in this world.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • World
  • Me
  • Evil

• Unless I'm asked to dress up in a costume, TV shows prefer a clean, modern look, so I've developed a wardrobe full of plain, bright colours. If it's an outdoors job, I just wear big jumpers.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Up
  • Job
  • Look

• I work everywhere. If there is a nice adventure in South Korea, for example, why not? Russia, Brazil, whatever. I'm ready for almost anything.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Work
  • Why
  • Nice

• I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Say
  • I Can
  • Painful

• I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I've never had a negative interaction.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • People
  • Time
  • Positive

• I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Patriotic

• There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment. You keep trying to master this very basic thing, and when you don't get it, you just scream. I broke a lot of drum heads, and I broke a lot of sticks.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Trying
  • Alone
  • Simple

• I've always strived to be successful, not famous.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Always
  • Famous
  • Successful

• Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Shows
  • Democrats
  • Poll

• Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Men
  • Women
  • Humor

• You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Know
  • Characters

• My dad's nickname was MacGyver when we were kids. He'd hijack my projects all the time. When I got older, he would not do it as much... but he would just end up hijacking the whole thing. You should see the look in his eyes when he gets to create stuff.

  

  Lucas Till
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Whole
  • Instruments
  • Desperate

• I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• What message do we send to America if we impeach Obama and he gets away?

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • America

• Composing easy? I find it easy if - big if - the idea is right, if I have the right collaborator, and if my collaborator is in the room. I like my collaborator to be in the room.

  

  Alan Menken
  • Idea
  • Composing
  • Collaborator

• The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it,...

  

  David Ricardo