David Schwimmer Quotes

I'm very goal oriented.

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• For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Learn
  • Doing
  • Before

• The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • School
  • Money
  • American

• Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Time
  • Music
  • Friends

• President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • President
  • Enemies
  • Reagan

• Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Broken
  • Will
  • Once

• People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • Great
  • Easy

• Some people might say I need to learn how to relax.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • People
  • Learn
  • Relax

• I bleed feminism. I get equal pay to my male costars on a big show; I have my own home. I'm as independent as you could possibly be.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Home
  • Independent
  • Feminism

• As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Mind

• I believe that the Tibetans should have the right to control their own destinies and decide for themselves whether they want to be part of China or not. But this view isn't shared by most Chinese, or even the leaders of most Western democracies. As long as the Communist Party is in power, there is little hope for Tibet.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Power

• I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Up
  • Done
  • Singing

• By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

  

  Mahavira
  • Man
  • Action
  • Speech

• Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Words

• The experience I had seeing Star Wars for the first time was mind-blowing. Eleven is a great age to have your mind blown. I will never forget that feeling of seeing 'Long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far away' fade out. It was the first time a movie made me believe in another world that way.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Time
  • History
  • Universe

• She had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • She

• A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • May
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• When you go to the Sistine Chapel with Sophia Loren, it can be quite some time before your thoughts turn to the ceiling.

  

  Adam West
  • Time
  • Thoughts

• For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the Port of Bristol with America.

  

  Edward Rutherfurd
  • Family
  • America
  • Father

• Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.

  

  George Eliot
  • Danger
  • Instruments
  • Melodies

• My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • Church
  • Challenge

• I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.

  

  Mike Duke
  • School
  • Culture
  • Growing

• I'm very goal oriented.

  

  David Schwimmer