David Sarnoff Quotes

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

David Sarnoff

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• I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Job
  • Vacation
  • Restaurant

• Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Power
  • Words

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Law
  • Grace
  • Quick

• One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Life
  • Common
  • Intelligence

• I love rock n' rollers.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Love
  • Rock
  • I Love

• We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • People
  • Today
  • Years

• Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • Work
  • Star

• I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Energy
  • Inside
  • Alpha

• One of my little girls is named Reagan. Her first words were, 'Mr. Larry, tear down this crib.' That was her first words, it was very sweet. My first words were, 'Are you going to finish that sandwich?'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Words
  • Sweet
  • Finish

• I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Man
  • Me
  • Artist

• I have my career and my family, and that's it.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Family
  • Career

• I don't intend to die.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Die
  • Intend

• But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Never
  • Become
  • Possession

• The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Sound
  • Test

• Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Want
  • Justice
  • Big

• Bring out the eyes.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Eyes
  • Bring
  • Out

• I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Stories
  • Get
  • Most

• If I am comfortable, I say what I want to. But yes, while doing a comedy show, I am slightly reserved as a person. Since it's scripted, it's not a problem. I can manage.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Comedy

• When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Change

• A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded. Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have exhumed, will march. You'll read them - or they'll march. Some of them livid and some of them fiery and some of them rotten.

  

  Charles Fort
  • Science
  • March

• The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

  

  David Sarnoff